Re: Is Ziff Davis using spammers?!?!

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

Sounds like a over-aggressive AV scanner to me.  Here's the error message
which doesn't make sense to me:

suspicious long filename tag is removed from here because it contains a
virus.

Richard

-----Original Message-----
From: Gregory Hicks [mailto:ghicks () cadence com] 
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 12:48 AM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Cc: rms () computerbytesman com
Subject: [funsec] Is Ziff Davis using spammers?!?!

What came to our mailgateway was a virus infected message...  See note from
virus scanner below and last attachment...

Regards,
Gregory hicks

------------- Begin Forwarded Message -------------

From: "Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>
To: <funsec () linuxbox org>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:18:11 -0400
Subject: [funsec] Is Ziff Davis using spammers?!?!

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Cadence IT Notice: Virus Warning Message (on mx-sanjose)

Security warning EMail_Flaw_MIME_Tag_Overflow in file The file is deleted.

There is no additional action required. You can safely delete this email.
Call helpdesk if you have any other questions.

------------- End Forwarded Message -------------


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