[SpamCop-List] Re: Virus in e-mail reported from spamcop (Exim) again.

[Mike Richter]

Göran Svensson wrote:
> This time I can tell what message I get when it returns back to me.
> **************
> This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim).
> 
> A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
> 
> recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:
> 
> submit.<my part here>@spam.spamcop.net
> 
> This mail has been stopped becase
> 
> it contains information also used by
> 
> a know virus. If you did not send this
> 
> mail please check you computer for viruses.
> 
> **************
> How can I report this abuse/spam?
> Is this a bug to avoid this abuse/spam to be reported as such?
> 
> 

Posted by a (mostly) happy SpamCop user, not an official.

A message nominally from your SC address has been bounced because it is 
infected. Presumably, you did not send that message. Then it was sent by 
an infected machine which had your SC address and that of the intended 
recipient available.

None of that suggests that it is spam or that it is reportable. Nor does 
it suggest that anyone is guilty of "abuse" except in that reporting an 
infection to the apparent sender is stupid and stupid people (and ISPs) 
can be considered and Internet abuse in themselves.

Mike
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