[clug] [AUSCERT ALERT - Email worm W32.Beagle.A/Win32.Bagle.A]

Damien Elmes clug at repose.cx
Mon Jan 19 10:53:54 GMT 2004


Martin Pool <mbp at sourcefrog.net> writes:

> This can still generate bounces, if the virus was coming through a
> (not so) smarthost, as many of them do.  The only sensible thing is to
> just drop them.

Yeah, I thought of this - but I was operating under the assumption
that viruses which'll use smarthosts weren't that common these days.
Not that I've ever bothered to look at the numbers.

Regards,
-- 
Damien Elmes


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