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Re: [LUG] False Positive Viruses from the list?

 

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:49:17PM +0000, Julian Hall wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Twice recently my AV has complained about viruses in incoming email and  
> Thunderbird has crashed.  Both times when I've turned off the AV to  
> receive mail it has been incoming mail from the list it has *claimed*  
> has a virus.
>
> I'm positive there are no viruses coming from the list, so that leads me  
> to ask whether anyone else has had false-positive reports of viruses?
>
> Incidentally in both instances I mentioned above the alleged virus was  
> Trojan-Spy.HTML.Fraud.gen.  Neither email was from the same person.
>
Nope, my server hasn't flagged/blocked anything from the list and Avast on the 
wife's PC hasn't picked anything up (running on Windows 7 with Thunderbird 3).

Rob

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