On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 05:42:23PM -0800, Dave Land wrote: > The message got through the virus filters because it was *not* > MIME-encoded -- it was a plain text message that just happened to > contain the the textual representation of a MIME-encoded message. > > What's the difference, you ask? The message itself is contained in a > MIME "container" that has the type text/plain. The content *would* have > been interpreted as the violating enclosure if it was not wrapped in a > text/plain container, but it was. > > In short, it looks like the goober who did this /almost/ knows what s/he > is doing.
Thanks for the explanation. Heh. Neat hack, I guess. Did you send it to the maintainers of the virus filters, to see if they can update their programs to catch this sort of thing? -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
