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On 8/10/2010 12:06 PM, Aldrich, Dak wrote:
>
> But today, when I responded to them... My mail was rejected by
>
> mx12.mail.msu.edu
> mx56.mail.msu.edu
>
> The message I got back said there was a virus found.
>
> That’s funny.  There was no file attacked to the email.  It was a 
> simple text reply.  I don’t even use HTML formats... I have no need 
> for them.
>
> Any idea what’s going on that a simple text mail, with no files, is 
> getting flagged as a virus?
>
Dak,

We subscribe to an extra set of definitions by a group called 
SaneSecurity - http://www.sanesecurity.com/ These are spam/phish/scam 
definitions that run inside of ClamAV, our mail systems' virus scanner. 
People submit signatures to the group and that generates the 
definitions. (Sometimes there are glaring false positives. (One day 
someone somewhere submitted ".com", that was a fun morning. We now no 
longer subscribe to that particular ruleset.)

In any case, if you need us to see those you can send them to our 
postmaster account. But sending them to any @msu.edu address will get 
them bounced back to the sender..

./brm