[SpamCop-List] Re: Dealing with viruses?

[Pavel Roskin]

Tim McGraw wrote:
> Oliver Broad wrote:
> 
>> I suppose it's right that we should not "report viruses as spam" but
>> wouldn't it be a good idea to have a way to report viruses as viruses, 
>> maybe
>> a counter system with stats reports rather than individual complaints 
>> so a
>> bad outbreak doesn't flood abuse desks.
> 
> 
> Google on 'spamcop viruscop' for previous discussions.

What I see is that somebody wrote a Window-only utility for virus 
reporting.  This doesn't address several issues:

1) Providers get overwhelmed by reports, as Oliver noted.  ISPs should 
not need hundreds of reports to identify an infected machine.  It's not 
like mosts senders would deny being infected.

2) Platform independence.  Requiring Windows to report a Windows virus 
is impractical.

3) Spamcop integration.  I have to read every message with subjects like 
"Re: Hi dude" to make sure that it's spam and not a virus.  It would be 
very helpful if Spamcop sorted spam and viruses at least for the paying 
users.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin