Sounds like a over-aggressive AV scanner to me. Here's the error message which doesn't make sense to me:
suspicious long filename tag is removed from here because it contains a virus. Richard -----Original Message----- From: Gregory Hicks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 12:48 AM To: [email protected] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [funsec] Is Ziff Davis using spammers?!?! What came to our mailgateway was a virus infected message... See note from virus scanner below and last attachment... Regards, Gregory hicks ------------- Begin Forwarded Message ------------- From: "Richard M. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:18:11 -0400 Subject: [funsec] Is Ziff Davis using spammers?!?! ------------------ Cadence IT Notice: Virus Warning Message (on mx-sanjose) Security warning EMail_Flaw_MIME_Tag_Overflow in file The file is deleted. There is no additional action required. You can safely delete this email. Call helpdesk if you have any other questions. ------------- End Forwarded Message ------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Gregory Hicks | Principal Systems Engineer Cadence Design Systems | Direct: 408.576.3609 555 River Oaks Pkwy M/S 9B1 San Jose, CA 95134 I am perfectly capable of learning from my mistakes. I will surely learn a great deal today. "A democracy is a sheep and two wolves deciding on what to have for lunch. Freedom is a well armed sheep contesting the results of the decision." "The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed." --Alexander Hamilton _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
