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Story: Notification emails cause virus-like chaos

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How to turn a virus into SPAM! Add one good intention and leave to stand with MYDOOM!

I have raised this question before. On receipt of e-mail, no longer can these e-mail filters identify the actual point of origin! Viruses like today's are able to spoof the e-mail FROM and TO address but the filters cannot and do not notify who has actually sent it. Instead they become scaremongers that panic users! While this remains everyone should turn this facility off!

Those that leave this facility on, do so to the virus writers’ pleasure.

Question: Do we need it?
Answer: "NO"
If we are responsible for our own e-mail content then let's check it at sender's gateway not at the recipients!

Recently I have spent more time advising users whom have received such alerts, "NO! you do not have a virus!" In the same token I cannot send out the global message, "Ignore these messages" because even the possibilty of one genuin virus is too high a risk. So definitely time to turn it off.

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