Re: Virus Spam - X-MailScanner

From: Jussi Silvennoinen (no email)
Date: Mon Sep 01 2003 - 14:23:03 EDT


On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, SysAdmin wrote:

> I've been doing a little looking at some email bounces to myself and to a
> few friends that have written me asking "What's up with this?" and I've
> found a header line that seems potentially bogus. It reads:
>
> X-MailScanner: Found to be clean
>
> Is this a line that is inserted by a known (by anyone on this group) mail
> scanning agent, or is this likely (or known to be) an artifact of a
> spammer/virus trying to make it look clean..???
>
> I guess it's the phrasing that seems odd to me. I would have expected
> something more terse (like "Verified", or "Clean"). "Found to be clean"
> seems oddly verbose...
>
> The reason for asking is, I'm thinking there might be potential for
> filtering on this...

Sobig.F at work here, discard or what ever your policy prefers.

-- 
  Jussi







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