X-Message-Flag

X-Message-Flag

[Riley Williams]

Hi all.

Some of you have apparently been including an X-Header-Flag: header
in your outgoing emails. A recent signature update means that any
emails containing that header now get labelled as viruses, so get
deleted unread by my anti-virus system. As a result, whilst those
might be fun for you to use, they will soon prevent your emails
from being read by many other people.

So far, ALL of the affected emails that have been received here
have been on the Linux-Kernel mailing list, hence my posting this
email to this list, and also to the server's postmaster for their
reference. I feel that a warning is only fair now I realise why it
is happening.

Best wishes from Riley.
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 * Nothing as pretty as a smile, nothing as ugly as a frown.
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Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.
Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
Version: 6.0.501 / Virus Database: 299 - Release Date: 14-Jul-2003

Re: X-Message-Flag

[Sean Neakums]

"Riley Williams" <Riley@Williams.Name> writes:

> Some of you have apparently been including an X-Header-Flag: header
> in your outgoing emails. A recent signature update means that any
> emails containing that header now get labelled as viruses, so get
> deleted unread by my anti-virus system. As a result, whilst those
> might be fun for you to use, they will soon prevent your emails
> from being read by many other people.

This is utterly laughable.  It is clearly *not* a virus, or a
plausible vector for one[0], so folks who object to having such a
header in their incoming mail should configure their mail systems to
simply delete the header.  But if you want to wall yourself off from
the rest of the Internet by means of ridiculous measures such as this,
be my guest.


[0] Modulo buffer overflows and other such potential software defects.

Re: X-Message-Flag

[Tomas Szepe]

> [Riley@Williams.Name]
> 
> Some of you have apparently been including an X-Header-Flag: header
> in your outgoing emails. A recent signature update means that any
> emails containing that header now get labelled as viruses, so get
> deleted unread by my anti-virus system.

Right, AVG is known to be utter crap.

-- 
Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>

Re: X-Message-Flag

[Paul Rolland]

Hello,

> Some of you have apparently been including an X-Header-Flag: header in 
> your outgoing emails. A recent signature update means that any emails 
> containing that header now get labelled as viruses, so get deleted 
> unread by my anti-virus system. As a result, whilst those might be fun 
Is this AVG ? lol....

> for you to use, they will soon prevent your emails from being read by 
> many other people.

Let me help you :
 - Revert the update, 
 - Change your soft,
 - Stop using that.

The day AVG will decide that an email with an @ in the From field
is a virus, do you wand all of us to stop having an @ in the 
addresses ?
Be serious ;-)

Regards,
Paul