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Lousy E-mail Filters Complicating Outlook Worms

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday September 11, 2003 @05:31AM from the cluttering-up-my-inbox dept.

Mar writes "FRISK Software founder Fridrik Skulason has issued an open letter in which he blames other anti-virus companies for much of the Sobig.F network load problems: 'If mail filters send out one message for every copy of Sobig.F received, they are in effect doubling the amount of traffic. This makes them a part of the problem, not a part of the solution.'"

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Stupid Bounce by crayiii · 2003-09-11 05:33 · Score: 3, Redundant

After so many viri's that fake return to headers it's stupid to continue responding to them. No I didn't read the article...
Is that better than... by stovey · 2003-09-11 05:34 · Score: 0, Redundant

letting the user get the email and start spewing out more viruses? I'd rather those reject emails go out than having more virus emails floating around..