viral e-mails-- the saga continues

On Wednesday 03 September 2003 06:48 pm, Lee Einer wrote:
> OK, so I have been getting a fairly high volume of infected e-mails
> (like 30-50 per day) from the same IP address for a week now. The IP
> address is registered to a magazine in Scottsdale. I have left phone
> messages for their IS person and their CEO, to no avail. I have notified
> their ISP (Qwest,) also to no avail. I am getting returned mail
> messages indicating that this company is also generating viral e-mails
> to others spoofed with my e-mail address. I am getting really, really
> pissed about this. These clowns have had a week to clean up, and they
> appear to be utterly uninterested in doing so.
>
> I am sorely tempted to filter all viral attachments to automatically
> forward to this company's published e-mail addresses. Would this be
> legal? Would it be considered a denial of service attack? What
> additional options do I have (besides living with this?)

Do you have an MTA or am mail client that can bounce email? Filter on the IP
or domain and the presence of the attachment. It the mail has them, bounce
it back at them. "Unknown user" or something like that.

IANAA (I Am Not An Admin) so this is just an idea. I don't really know what
it takes to do it.

Alan