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Curtis Richards posted <42D14E24.7070103@×××××××××.net>, excerpted below, |
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on Sun, 10 Jul 2005 12:34:44 -0400: |
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> Anyone know why the digests would trigger the Earthlink virus Blocker? |
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> ************************************** |
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> EARTHLINK VIRUS BLOCKER MESSAGE STATUS |
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> ************************************** |
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> MESSAGE QUARANTINED |
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> Virus Detected: Malformed container violation |
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That last line pretty much explains it. The scanner can't parse the |
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message encapsulation (container) format used for the digests, so it |
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thinks the encapsulation is malformed (perhaps it's right, I'm not going |
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to bother researching it to find out). If it can't parse the |
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encapsulation format, it can't properly scan any encapsulated items for |
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viruses, so to be safe, it quarantines the message, just in case. |
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Do note that every once in awhile, somebody reading the Gentoo lists using |
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MS Lookout or Lookout Express (or for that matter, any HTML parsing |
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client on MSWormOS) /does/ pass on a virus, and they /can/ make it to the |
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list, altho I'm not sure if they make it to the list digests. Thus, if you |
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do happen to use MS products (platform or mail/news client) to read the |
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list, it'd be wise to keep that in mind and not disable the scanning |
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entirely. If you don't use MS platforms anyway (but it seems you do, |
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unless you munged your useragent to spoof Thunderbird on MSWormOS), then |
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even in the unlikely event someone /does/ post malware that will affect |
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Linux, it's not likely most scanners will pick it up anyway, so you might |
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as well disable the scanner and not worry about it. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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