Weird Symantec email

[Jonty]

That's right! I expect many of you subscribe to the regular Symantec Anit-Virus email newsletter.

I just received one from David Banes, there was no message in the subject slot and the email contained about 70 email addresses!!

I've emailed a copy back to him but has anyone else received something like this from Symantec?

[NeoStarO1]

Are you sure the email came from Symantec? Someone might be trying to spoof the email from line. Because I don't think Symantec would be giving out a bunch of email addresses like that.

Sounds like a mime format digest. Are you one a mailing list for techsupport or something like that?

[Jonty]

That's what I thought at first, that it wasn't from Symantec but some sort of virus email type thingy!

But looking at the email's properties it all looks in order. I haven't received any email back from Symantec yet.

No, The only mailing list at Symantec I am on is for theie regular anti-virus bulletin.

[jman01pa]

I got that too. I deleted it. I wish I would have saved it now. I would have liked to have looked at the header.


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[Jonty]

I've only ever had one email that in fact contained a virus, and the email addresses that were in the property part were kinda strange. My Inoculate anti-virus spotted it for me so I was able to deal with it - yeah, I wish I had kept the header on that one!!

Here is what a headder in my MIME digest looks like.
In order to see it I have to click on the title line of the digest.
But I"m sure pmail does it different than outlook.

Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 00:00:12 -0600
Reply-To: Pegasus Mail Discussion List <PMAIL@bama.ua.edu>
Sender: Pegasus Mail Discussion List <PMAIL@bama.ua.edu>
From: Automatic digest processor <LISTSERV@BAMA.UA.EDU>
Subject: PMAIL Digest - 15 Mar 2002 to 16 Mar 2002 (#2002-76)
To: Recipients of PMAIL digests <PMAIL@BAMA.UA.EDU>

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[Jonty]

Got a reply from Symantec yesterday apologising for the email which they had sent in error - oops!!

That's that mystery cleared up then.