On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 21:11:07 -0500, William Ehrich <abc.TakeThisOut@def.invalid>
wrote:
>How does the swen bounce message work? I don't get any attachment and the
>iframe src is just a random looking character string.
As I understand it, there are two ways to get a bounce looking
message: the virus itself generates some, and some are real bounce
messages incorrectly sent to the person who address was stolen by the
virus to use as the From: address. Server managers are getting better
about those bounce messages - the word seems to have gotten to them
(perhaps because they got huge numbers of wrong bounce messages
themselves the last go-around) that sending them out is
counterproductive. Also, a larger number of servers have filters that
strip the virus any time one enters the server, instead of just on
outgoing messages to valid users. there never was any point in
returning an attachment to the sender of a message to an invalid
address - if the attachment is innocent, the sender already has a
copy, and if it's a virus or worm, the (supposed) sender probably
doesn't want it.
T.E.D. (tdavis@gearbox.maem.umr.edu - e-mail must contain "T.E.D." or my .sig in the body)
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