On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 02:12:39 -0400, you wrote: >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.
Not as much help as you'd wish, but one of the extended rulesets from SARE filters on those messages. Sorry, I don't recall which one. Mike- -- If you're not confused, you're not trying hard enough. -- Please note - Due to the intense volume of spam, we have installed site-wide spam filters at catherders.com. If email from you bounces, try non-HTML, non-encoded, non-attachments,
