On 2001-04-13 at 6:15 pm daveiw wrote:
> Many thanks for your swift replies, especially Alastair. I have tried
> another client (OE) as you suggested and found that it too received 1 of
> those messages. This may suggest the ISP but I have never had this
> problem before. Is it possible that I may have some sort of virus on my
> PC (this seems unlikely as the messages are few and far between) that's
> causing this? Apart from changing ISP - something I do not wish to do,
> do you have any suggestions? Also in answer to Karin's question - I have
> no attachments with the messages. :-)
A look around suggests that:
(i) completely blank emails are most likely an offshoot of faulty
spamming software (!)
(ii) completely blank emails _with an attachment_ are produced by a
number of virus generators (I had one a couple of weeks ago where
there were no headers whatsoever but an attachment containing a virus;
Panda Antivirus sounded the alarm immediately it was received).
Certainly, as there is literally nothing in the emails, they can only
be harmless but annoying; the best solution is probably to work up a
The Bat! filter to silently delete them before they get to you.
(That said, I am having trouble working out what such a filter would
be when the incoming message seemingly contains nothing at all, not
even a header. Help!)
Alastair
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