A lot of virus software works merely on signatures (e.g. checksums) of the content or pattern matches, rather than a full content check. Perhaps the message is just misleading and the software is dumb?
As far as i can rmemeber, the message in 'sent' should be what was actually sent. On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 08:34, Mertens Bram wrote: > Hi, > > I just received a warning of a mailing-list robot, that a message I sent > might be infected with a virus. I'm using Evolution 1.0.8 on a RH7.3. > > The message did not (to my knowledge) contain ANY attachment (it wasn't > signed either). > > Below is the warning I received followed by the full source of the > message I sent as I found it in my sent folder > > -----Forwarded Message----- > > From: Daniel B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Mertens Bram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Possible virus deleted > Date: 14 Aug 2002 16:50:15 -0600 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Everybuddy] Re: msn status incorrect > References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > This is an auto-generated message > > The email referenced above, which was sent from your address, > had a virus-vulnerable attachement (such as .EXE, .VBS, .PIF, etc). > > This mail server no longer accepts mail with virus-vulnerable > attachments and the email has been quarantined. > Please try resending your attachment in a safe format such as ZIP. > Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you have any questions > > === included message === > Subject: Re: [Everybuddy] Re: msn status incorrect > From: Mertens Bram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: everybuddy list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 > Date: 15 Aug 2002 00:33:14 +0200 > Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Mime-Version: 1.0 > X-Evolution-Transport: smtp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > X-Evolution-Account: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > X-Evolution-Fcc: file:///home/M8ram/evolution/local/Sent > X-Evolution-Format: text/plain > > Hi, > > The contacts is added to my contacts list > > <CONTACT> > NAME="Ann" > DEFAULT_PROTOCOL="MSN" > LANGUAGE="" > TRIGGER_TYPE="" > TRIGGER_ACTION="" > TRIGGER_PARAM="" > <ACCOUNT MSN> > NAME="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > </ACCOUNT> > </CONTACT> > > the address isn't @somewhere off course, but it isn't @hotmail or @msn > either, but then again, so is my address and my contacts can see me > online... > > Those addresses aren't case-sensitive right? > > When all the addresses get compared to each other at startup, they're > all lower-case... > > Any other suggestions? > > BTW Isn't there a way to check a contact's account without opening the > contacts file? I can only edit the name, the default protocol and the > group a contact belongs to. but when a contact changes e-mail address > or ICQ account or whatever, there appears to be no other way than to > remove the old entry and replace it by a new one. Am I missing > something? > > TIA > > On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 19:52, Adam Wolfe Gordon wrote: > > Make sure that the person is on your contact list. If an unknown user > > sends you a message, EB won't see them as online until they are added to > > your contact list. I don't know why this is, and it probably should be > > fixed, but I've found it to be true. > > -- > # Mertens Bram "M8ram" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # > # Registered [Red Hat] Linux User # 249103 since Octobre 2000 # > # http://linux.be | http://www.redhat.com | http://counter.li.org # > # Red Hat Linux 7.3 KDE 3.0.0-10 kernel 2.4.18-3 i686 128MB RAM # > === included message === > > -- > # Mertens Bram "M8ram" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # > # Registered [Red Hat] Linux User # 249103 since Octobre 2000 # > # http://linux.be | http://www.redhat.com | http://counter.li.org # > # Red Hat Linux 7.3 KDE 3.0.0-10 kernel 2.4.18-3 i686 128MB RAM # > > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
