Bob Menschel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Are you sure you're getting the messages exactly that way?  How
> do you retrieve/review them to find that they're empty and have
> that attachment?

I get that sort of message all the time, and I have nothing 
locally that's deleting the attachments.  It's particularly 
annoying since the message would be blocked easily if the 
attachment hadn't been removed by the "helpful" antivirus 
program.

What seems to be happening is that the virus-infected computer 
sending the message is behind a mail gateway that runs 
antivirus software that strips out the virus and allows the now-
mostly-empty message to go on its way.  It's the usual idiocy 
of antivirus companies that are more interested in sending out 
messages talking about the wonderful things their software has 
done that actually doing the sensible or useful thing.

-- 
Keith C. Ivey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Washington, DC

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