-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2005-09-25 at 02:26 +0200, Anders Johansson wrote:
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
In this case, it helped, because I noticed, and resent encapsulating in an encrypted zip archive. Amavis-new doesn't bounce if the virus is one known for forging the from address, it is clever.
Thunderbird has started flagging suspected phishing attempts. I guess it's considered added value in these types of programs.
Yes...
But bouncing phishing attempts is probably worse than useless, as it tells these people that there is a valid mailbox there
Well, in this case the bounce originates from the mail host machine, which is in a different domain altogether than the destination, which must be a virtual address then. It needs a human reading the email to check that. And in any case, the destination address is publicly known, so no damage can be done. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFDNopatTMYHG2NR9URAjtBAKCL8FtlSs1bAF+K3iTGomDKsnCwDACdElJA k+WJYWpQf68UbhG9S+ePW3Y= =53ZK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----