[OT] Handling Returned Virus Mail

[MisterX]

Scott

And I thought mac users were not affected by window viruses ;)

We get 80K viruses or spam hits a day at work... and the percentage of spam
hits is alluring! Virii are not negligent either...

Here's a few rules:

Virii:
Attachments, JavaScripts
Not sent to you
from address doesn't match the originators server domain or topsite url
Attachments: (exe, zip, rar, doc, vbs, wmi, etc...)

SPAM:
Not sent to you
from address doesn't match the originators server domain or topsite url
Title words do not match dictionary and some are obfuscated alphanumerics
Title words match spam dictionary (pharmacy, p1-lls, v1a-gra etc...

Now, people send jokes to their friends via the cc field (so spammers don't
catch the list full of new email addresses thanks to the careless jokers or
gullible chain letters responders)... 

What kind of server is this?

>  On Behalf Of Jerry Muelver

> From: "Scott Rossi" <scott at tactilemedia.com>
> Subject: [OT] Handling Returned Virus Mail
> 
> 
> > Over the last week I've been inundated (yet again) with a 
> tidal wave 
> > of bounced virus email messages.  Of course I did not 
> initiate any of 
> > the original messages -- I'm receiving the bounced attempts 
> and server 
> > notices as a result of virus propagation.
> ....
> > Any suggestions on how to combat this problem?
> 
> Just set your filter to intercept any "returned" emails, and 
> delete them from the server without downloading. If you 
> aren't sending them out in the first place, why would you 
> want to read the bogus bounce notices anyway?
> 
> ---- Jerry