[TriLUG] Virus Attachments

[Roberto J. Dohnert]

If it did think that your pgp.sig was a virus, why myDoom, another guys
sent me a virus that was called Win32.Swen and I emailed him as well.
It is confusing.  And I will get to the bottom of it and I will keep in
touch.  If someone here could explain how a virus goes from a Linux mail
server let me know.
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua Gitlin [mailto:josh at glowfilms.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 1:30 PM
To: David A. Cafaro
Cc: Roberto J. Dohnert
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Virus Attachments
 
What is more annoying is when I get emails from virus
scanning servers telling me that I'm infected (yeah, that funny, a
windows virus has infected and taken over my Linux desktop..hehe yeah
what ever..)

David,

Actually, this happened to me, too. Roberto's email server said that it
stripped the myDoom virus off of an email that I sent to him... but I'm
using MacOS and Linux -- I'm not infected. When Roberto received sed
email from me, the bottom of the message read:
---
avast! Antivirus: Inbound message INFECTED:
(Win32:MyDoom) was deleted from the message.

Virus Database (VPS): 1/26/2004
Tested on: 1/28/2004 11:15:09 AM
avast! is copyright (c) 2000-2003 ALWIL Software.
http://www.avast.com

My only thinking could be that somehow the avast! software running on
Roberto's mail server thought that my PGP signature was a virus... Other
than that, I'm baffled. Because this was an email that I deliberately
composed (I sent it to TriLUG also, the subject was Re: [TriLUG] HD
Diags -> smarttools). I'm quite confused... Why would Virus scanning
software be telling me (and you) that we're infected 

-Josh