begin quoting Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade as of Mon, May 12, 2008 at 04:41:46PM -0700: > On May 12, 2008, at 4:27 PM, James G. Sack (jim) wrote: > > >Every once in a while I see something like this insertion at the top > >of a message > > > >>This message has been processed by Symantec's AntiVirus Technology. > >> > >>quoting Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade as of Mon, May 12, 2008 at 03:05:31PM > >>-0700: was not scanned for viruses because of the error: > >>DECERR_CHILD_EXTRACT
Once once in awhile? Am I killfiled or something? > This is supremely amusing to me, because it appears that: > > a) RR is indeed doing virus-filtering for all inbound mail, whether or > not you have spam filtering enabled (generally, good, but tell your > damn users about it.) > > b) RR is using an exchange-based virus scanning system. > > How do I know (b) is true? Well: [snip] > 2) Linux/Unix products don't choke on lines matching '^begin .*$' but > instead actually verify that what looks like might be a uuencoded file > actually is. > > This is an error based on the fact that Symantec is relying on > (broken) Microsoft libraries that blindly try to interpret anything > following '^begin ' (the word "begin" at the start of the line > followed by two space characters) as a uuencoded file, and fail if > they're wrong about that guess. > > This is underlined by the fact that it was telling you that the file > name of the attached file, which was not scanned because it could not > be extracted, was: > > "quoting Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade as of Mon, May 12, 2008 at 03:05:31PM > -0700" > > Hooray broken Microsoft code (which has had open bugs filed against it > for at least 10 years.) M$ finally fixed that, or so I was led to believe. -- Just waiting on the next crusade. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
