Anti-vrus auto-replies

Is there anyone other than me that considers all these antivirus autoreply messages to be more than a nuisance?

When the virus it detects is *known* to fake the sender adress, why send an alert back to the specified sender? During the last day, after the outbreak of Sobig.e, we've received hundreds of these messages to our support mailing lists.

In some ways they are worse than the virus itself; the viruses get stopped at the gateway; these messages do not and we have to manually remove them.

A previous strand used support@microsoft.com as the sender. I wonder how many autoreplies they got...?

  // J