We all can remember the I love you and Sir Cam outbreaks. Now matter how hard you tried they kept comming.
Normally I start a campaign to alert each person that sends my network the virus. I usually send them a friendly notice and instructions on how to remove it.
I also usually urge all other admins to do the same.
However, this time my good faith efforts are coming back to haunt me. With this virus, if you send the person an e-mail alerting them, it goes into their inbox. The next time they reboot, the virus spreads again. And is sent back to me twice since now I have 2 e-mails in their inbox.
So now we have a dillema. How do we alert the user and avoid receiving the virus.
The answer here is to not alert the user, but alert their postmaster. By default, all mail systems have a postmaster account. (normally, but if a mail server hosts multiple domain names, you might have to do some research)
What does that accomplish. Maybe nothing. But it might alert anunsuspecting admin that one of their users has a virus. Or it might force an isp to shut down that persons mail account.
With that, I will be posting my canned responses to postmasters for all of you to use. Feel free to edit as needed.
I will also post some other misc advice about combatting this virus.