Hello Gents, We too have seen this problem -- a single Mac within our agency *constantly* has this problem. I beleive she uses netscape 4.7x as a mail client. How can we fix the blank line in the header?
Thanks! Dominic ----- Original Message ----- From: "R. Scott Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 7:25 AM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] 'Blank Folding' vulnerability > > >I have a rather strange problem. Our main system (a text based rs/6000) is > >sending out an e-mail that contains the 'Blank Folding' vulnerability. > >Here's the really strange part, I wrote the program that sends the > >particular email with the problem, so I know it's not malicious. > >Declude is blocking it because it thinks it's a virus. > > Technically, Declude Virus is blocking it because it contains a > vulnerability. Declude Virus doesn't think there is a virus in there (or > else it would have given you the virus name), but it knows that there is a > vulnerability in it. > > >Does anybody know what triggers this vulnerability and what I need to > >change from the emailing program? > > The "Blank Folding" vulnerability occurs when the E-mail has a line with > just a single space or tab in the headers (either the standard E-mail > headers, or the MIME headers). There is no valid reason to have this line > in the headers, and it is dangerous, as it can cause viruses to be > delivered unscanned to Outlook users. Note that a line with a single space > or tab in the E-mail body is fine; the problem is only if the line with the > single space or tab appears in the headers. > > -Scott > --- > Declude: Anti-virus, Anti-spam and Anti-hijacking solutions for > IMail. http://www.declude.com > > --- > [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > --- > [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] > > --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
