25 Sep
2005
25 Sep
'05
00:26
On Sunday 25 September 2005 02:12, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I didn't think it is the job of an antivirus program to say "Hey, you got a virus in your machine! You sent a virus to me!" if it is not a virus, don't you think?
I don't think it's the job of the AV program to say anything at all to the sender. Why bother bouncing the virus? In most cases the sender address will be forged anyway. It just causes needless (not to say useless) network traffic Thunderbird has started flagging suspected phishing attempts. I guess it's considered added value in these types of programs. But bouncing phishing attempts is probably worse than useless, as it tells these people that there is a valid mailbox there