RE: [cobalt-users] MailScanner: Warning: E-mail viruses detected

[Arthur Sherman <arturs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That could be it. Names had dots in them.

Thank you

Arthur Sherman
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Phil Beynon
> Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 19:17
> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] MailScanner: Warning: E-mail 
> viruses detected
> 
> 
> > Hi
> >
> > i've got 2 error messages from my server:
> >
> > #The following e-mail messages were found to have viruses in them:
> > # Sender: uid@xxxxxxxxxx IP Address: 194.90.9.20
> > #Recipient: uid1@xxxxxxxxxx
> > #Subject:
> > 
> =?windows-1255?B?7Onj6SDh+iDy7ukgLSDg+eM6IOzy6eXvIOXg+eX4IPnsIPnu5eDs?
> > =
> > #MessageID: i1FErku03737
> > #Report: Could not parse Outlook Rich Text attachment
> >
> > And this:
> >
> > #Our virus detector failed to completely analyse a message 
> you sent:-
> > #To: uid1@xxxxxxxxxx
> > #Subject:
> > 
> =?windows-1255?B?7Onj6SDh+iDy7ukgLSDg+eM6IOzy6eXvIOXg+eX4IPnsIPnu5eDs?
> > =
> > #Date: Sun Feb 15 16:53:53 2004
> > #Any parts of the message that could not be analysed will not have 
> > been delivered.
> > #If you are using Microsoft Outlook, we strongly recommend 
> you change 
> > your outgoing message format from "Rich Text" to "HTML" or 
> "Plain Text".
> > #1) Click on the "Tools" menu and choose "Options..."
> > #2) Got to the "Mail Format" tab
> > #3) For message format, select "HTML" or "Plain text"
> > #4) Click OK
> > #The virus detector said this about the message:
> > #Report: Could not parse Outlook Rich Text attachment
> >
> > this was a HTML-formatted mail w/ MS Office 2003 .doc attachments.
> > What could I do?
> > Thank you
> >
> >
> > Arthur Sherman
> > IT Manager
> 
> Check the file names of the attachments, if it is something 
> like "report w.mids.doc" mailscanner will see it as a double 
> extension and trap it because of that. I've had that a couple 
> of times.
> 
> Phil
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