'E-Mail Anti-Virus Administrator' Messages

[kmeyer]

I get 10 - 20 a day, and like you many appear to be intercepted replies to an email I never sent. I'm guessing some virus infected someone that knows me, which then captured his addressbook including my email address, and is then using it to propagate all over the place. Not much you can do. It is useful having DASP intercept them, however I wish there was a way to turn off the messages so I never know about it. Now I have an Outlook rule to just automatically dump the messages into Deleted.

Kevin

[homeacademy]

Thanks for the info. I'm all too familiar with viruses and I'm sure what you describe is right. I just wanted to make sure it wasn't a hoax where someone was 'pretending' to be the virus scanner at DASP. I also don't understand the 'Disallowed characters found in MIME headers' problem indication. It is nice that DASP intercepts stuff at the server level, and I'm very glad that they let me know (I'd hate to have e-mail dissapearing without my knowledge...) I may do an Outlook rule to send the mail to a different folder though. Thanks again.

[homeacademy]

In the past few days, I have received 3 e-mails, all from E-Mail Anti-Virus Administrator [virusadmin@discountasp.net] and containing text similar to the following (my address *ed out for privacy):


Attention: *********@*********

A problem was found in an email message sent to you. The message was intercepted before it reached you. No further action is required on your part.


Additional Technical Details
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The problem was reported to be:

Disallowed characters found in MIME headers

The message sent to you had the following envelope:

MAIL FROM: maidenhea_hnoff5126@hellokitty.com RCPT TO: *********@*********

... and with the following headers:

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MAILFROM: maidenhea_hnoff5126@hellokitty.com Received: from cpe00d00980716b-cm.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com (65.50.128.16)
by mail01.internetmailserver.net with SMTP; 8 Apr 2004 15:50:17 -0000
X-Message-Info: 4wijflhr88RND_LC_CHAR[1-3]C/slzHDvwrTShhxFXsDUU95Odc
Message-ID: <79547186.02794@alardjianrong50_40@china139.com>
Reply-To: "Norberto Paige" <deraafkunchu_r1162@flytecrew.com>
From: "Norberto Paige" <tanfernaasaba_0718@bkkmail.com>
To: "Webmaster" <*********@*********>
Subject: Re: Your Web Site Advertising Order - Invoice Number #8296
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 22:49:41 +0500
MIME-Version: 1.0 (produced by ripecuriosity 8.8)
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="--017687914077965"


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I don't know anything about the sender nor did I order any advertising and I am sure it is just spam, but I found it curious that 'E-Mail Anti-Virus Administrator' intercepted it and I wondered if this is indeed from your anti-virus software or if someone is spoofing you? Anyone else gotten things like this? Just curious...

[bruce]

When we designed the antivirus system, we think most user would like to know someone sent them an email containing virus. We didn't build this functionality into disabling this feature.

I'll forward this to our product development group for consideration.

[b]quote:Originally posted by kmeyer

I get 10 - 20 a day, and like you many appear to be intercepted replies to an email I never sent. I'm guessing some virus infected someone that knows me, which then captured his addressbook including my email address, and is then using it to propagate all over the place. Not much you can do. It is useful having DASP intercept them, however I wish there was a way to turn off the messages so I never know about it. Now I have an Outlook rule to just automatically dump the messages into Deleted.

Kevin
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[homeacademy]

[b]quote:Originally posted by bruce

When we designed the antivirus system, we think most user would like to know someone sent them an email containing virus.
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This is absolutely correct at least for me. I have had other providers automatically delete things without telling me and I couldn't stand it. Thanks for doing it they way you do! [:)]

[JAgiato]

Yes, I appreciate the notices as well.