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On the value of virus notificationsOn the value of virus notificationsPosted Aug 21, 2003 1:45 UTC (Thu) by ewen (subscriber, #4772)Parent article: On the value of virus notifications I absolutely agree with you that "your message has a virus" notifications are causing far more of a problem than they are solving. I'm currently seeing about 2-3 times as many "your message has a virus" notifications as all other (non-SPAM) mail, despite being on some busy mailing lists, and it still seems to be growing. (I got about 150 "your message has a virus" notifications yesterday, and have easily had that many so far today. All of them relate to email forged in my name, with injection addresses all over the globe.) At very least virus filters should be told which viruses forge email addresses, and not bother to "reply" to those at all. Given all the mail servers which are apparently struggling under the load, I'm surprised more people haven't turned the notifications off already. Perhaps this is something which needs to be raised considerably more publically with anti-virus software makers? Ewen
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