Hi all, My ISP has set SpamAssassin up on the mail servers. I got an email today that was flagged as having a possible virus, and thus had the attachment stripped. The alert message was slightly interesting:
>This is a message from the Hunter Point Online E-Mail Virus Protection Service >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >The original e-mail attachment "msg-17299-421.html" >was believed to be infected by a virus and has been replaced by this warning >message. > >Due to limitations placed on us by the Regulation of Investigatory Powers >Act 2000, we were unable to keep a copy of the infected attachment. Please >ask the sender of the message to disinfect their original version and send >you a clean copy. > >At Mon Feb 24 12:59:57 2003 the virus scanner said: > Found dangerous IFrame tag in HTML message > >-- >Postmaster > >HPO thanks Mailscanner and SpamAssassin for their support I thought this was interesting because every now and then some PM users report a certain email message gave them serious trouble. Sometimes it crashes PM or causes other unpleasantness. Most people believe the culprit is bad HTML code. While I have no way of providing any other details (seeing as how the message has been destroyed), perhaps this could give a clue to someone else. Maybe badly formatted IFrame tags are poisoning PM... Tim Tokyo, Japan iBook PPC G3 300MHz OS 8.6 160MB/+400MB VM CarbonLib 1.6 PM 4.1.2 (15MB allocated) 2 pane view Digest Mode Tim's PowerMail FAQ <http://home.hpo.net/timm/PowerMailFAQ.html> Last updated: March 21, 2002 PowerMail AppleScript Archives: <http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/powermail.html>
