Infected mails from mydomain

[Julian Field]

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Jim Holland wrote:

>Hi
>
>On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Matt Kettler wrote:
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>>Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 13:11:58 -0500
>>From: Matt Kettler <mkettler at EVI-INC.COM>
>>Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
>>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>Subject: Re: Infected mails from mydomain
>>
>>Chris Boyd wrote:
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>>>Am i getting these messages sent to my admin alias (ie admin at mydomain.ie) because someone is spoofing my email address and sending out infected attachments? 
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>>Given that Symantec found a Sober variant virus in it, I'd say with 99.9999%
>>certainty that forgery is the case. Sober tries hard to always forge the
>>return-path and From: headers.
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>While that is true, I would put the explanation the other way around:  
>Chris Boyd is receiving these notices because Symantec stupidly bounces
>known viruses back to the spoofed sender address.  Whenever I get one of
>these bounces I send back a polite but firm response to the system sending
>it pointing out the unacceptability of this annoying behaviour (and
>suggesting that they switch to MailScanner of course).
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Surely they have changed the default to not do this any more, haven't they?
This is grossly irresponsible, and I am very surprised they haven't been 
sued by someone for causing a DoS attack resulting from the inevitable 
Joe-jobs.

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