[nukkad] Half-baked virus detectors

[Harshal Chhaya <>]

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Here is an example of an over-zealous virus detector. Since part
of Net Geek's email included the same text as used by the 
SirCam virus, this program thought that the message actually
contained the virus.

The same program also tripped over Karthikeyan's email from Tuesday
where he warned about a new virus.

It looks like the program is called MimeSweeper. If so, it either
lacks important features (like actually looking at MIME attachments
for virus signatures) or has been wrongly configured.

Such false positives can not only lead to confusion but also to
ignoring the warnings even when a real virus is detected.

- 'shal



----- Forwarded message from Mimeswpr@sce.com -----
                                *********  VIRUS ALERT  *********
Your message addressed to
<username_deleted>@sce.com

with the subject of "[nukkad] Revealed! The secret memos that ignited the HP/Compaq merger",
has been found to contain a Virus. This message has been blocked and
will not be delivered to the recipient.

Please obtain the latest DAT files from your Virus software vendor and
try again.


Links to Virus software vendors.

McAfee:	      http://download.mcafee.com/
Norton:	      http://www.symantec.com/nav/index_updates.html


----- End forwarded message -----

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