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Re: [Clamav-users] "Virus Infected" Message for recipient
From: James Kosin <jkosin_at_nospam>Date: Thu Apr 30 2009 - 12:51:25 GMT
To: ClamAV users ML <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net>
Dan Metcalf wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Michelle Konzack" <linux4michelle@tamay-dogan.net>
>> To: <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net>
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 2:48 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] "Virus Infected" Message for recipient
>
>
>>> I also came across the same issue. Of course I Reject the messages, but
>>> for
>>> my own personal domain I like to have the notices of infected email go
>>> through to the intended local recipient just to keep track of things.
>>>
>>> James Kosin mentioned the backscatter with faked sender addresses, but we
>>> aren't looking to return the email notice to the sender. I just want to
>>> send a notice to the local recipient that the message was not accepted
>>> due
>>> to a virus.
>> I would never do this because I do not want to
>> be informed about 150-2000 viriis per day.
>>
>> Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
>> Michelle Konzack
>
> That's nice, but we weren't asking for an opinion poll.
>
> My domain doesn't get very many viruses at all through email, so it's a nice
> ticker to see when virus activity is on the rise out there. I could have
> all of the postmaster virus notifications routed to myself, but that's
> overkill for my monitoring needs.
>
> Dan Metcalf
>
Should be easy enough to write a script to parse the log and return a count of the viruses per day for you.
James
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