http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];823980 Cheers, Cade Kelly System/Network Administrator ECONnergy Co. Inc Spring Valley, NY -----Original Message----- From: Wesley Vaux [mailto:Wesley.Vaux@globalknowledge.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 11:58 AM To: 'Stephen J. Wilcox'; Joe Maimon Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications? At 10:30:43 my systems rebooted after installing hotfix "Windows 2000 Hotfix KB823980 was installed" and machines rebooted. Any ideas on how to remove this or what it may be? Wes Vaux, CCNA, CCDA Network Security Engineer, 9000 Regency Pkwy Ste 500 Cary, NC 27511 t 919.463.6782 f 919.463.1290 Global Knowledge Experts Teaching Experts http://www.globalknowledge.com -----Original Message----- From: Stephen J. Wilcox [mailto:steve@telecomplete.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 10:33 AM To: Joe Maimon Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications? On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Joe Maimon wrote:

Considering the amount of email traffic generated by responding to forged virus laden email from culprits like sobig should email virus scanning systems be configured to send notifications back to sender or

not? well if you dont tell them they wont know, altho with sobig the return address is false anyhow it would probably be best to cache the sender/virus combinations and send a single message per 7 days Steve