*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* Sorry I should have been more explicit. I got that message in response to a reply I made to this list.
-- Andy Fragen On Sun, Jan 2, 2005, Tim Lapin said: >On Sunday, January 02, 2005, Andy Fragen sent forth: > >>------------------ RFC822 Header Follows ------------------ > >>From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: Symantec Mail Security detected that you sent a message >>containing prohibited content and was classified as SPAM. >> (SYM:11600384200103502059) >>Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 17:07:11 -0500 > >>----------------------------------------------------------- >> >>I got this as a response from somewhere to a message response. Any ideas? >> >>-- >>Andy Fragen >> >> >> >I'm not sure I understand. Are you saying that someone initiated an e- >mail conversation, you sent the 2nd e-mail as a response and got the >above (3rd e-mail) as a response from them? If that is the case, you >will have to look at what you sent and ask their PostMaster about it. >That organization might have tightened up what they accept by default. > >Regardless of the above, there is another possibility. A lot of virus >laden spam will mine their victims' address book for addresses to spoof >both "From" and "To" fields. Allow me to suggest a possible scenario: > >The virus on the infected PC picks your email address for the "From" >field and sends it off to an address protected by Symantec Corporate >Security type software. Since it does not know the From field was >spoofed, it merrily sends back the response to you. > >I have received several of these over the last year and a half on my work >account. Fortunately, they come in waves, probably belonging to whatever >is the current virus family du jour. > >Hope this helps! > > > >-- >Tim Lapin >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >G4/AGP/400 OS 10.3.7 PowerMail 5.1 384 MB RAM 40+10 GB HDs > >
