On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 03:23:55PM +0000, Wechsler wrote:
Or just a list of anti-virus programs that do not send out spam advertising
their product to everyone who has had their email address joe jobbed by
MyDoom.
Heh - also a good idea. Frankly I took those as "we're incompetent"
messages.
Well, it's not always the fault of the AV companies. We produce anti-virus
products, and we are very much opposed to the practice of sending
notifications to the recipients and *supposed* senders of mass-mailing
worms - see my recent public letter on this topic:
http://www.f-prot.com/news/gen_news/open_letter_30jan2004.html
and an older letter from last September (at the time of Sobig.F) at
http://www.f-prot.com/news/gen_news/open_letter_10sept2003.html
As I said in the letter:
"However, even though we at FRISK Software are fundamentally against
this practice and do not offer this functionality in our mail-filter
products, someone could abuse our product in this way, for example by
writing his own mail filter using, e.g., our Linux/UNIX "daemon"
virus scanner. What this means is that merely getting the antivirus
companies to stop offering this functionality is not sufficient."
On a side note, we are just about to publish SPF records for our own
domains - no, those are not big and well-known domains, but at least we are
in the anti-virus/anti-spam field.
-frisk
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Fridrik Skulason Frisk Software International phone: +354-540-7400
Author of F-PROT E-mail: frisk(_at_)f-prot(_dot_)com fax:
+354-540-7401
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