On 8/10/2010 12:06 PM, Aldrich, Dak wrote:

[log in to unmask]" type="cite"> Email issues on campus... Really an issue?
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