[GRASS5] Re: Mail rejects

GRASS GRASS developer
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Hi Gonzalo,
(cc grass5)

On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 07:55:05PM +0100, "Fernández-Victorio Arévalo, Gonzalo" wrote:

Hi Markus:

I've getting some emails from grass5 filtered by my employer virus cleaner,
in particular, the thread about I18N. I can read them on the web, and I'm
talking to my employer to see if they can correct it(it seems wrong, as most
of you post from Linux/Unix machines).

well, I have no idea why you get that obviously false alarm.
We have a "sanitizer" running here to filter away dangerous attachments,
already in the *incoming* queue. So no viruses should be spread through
the *outgoing* mail queue to "grass5" etc..

The last one have been from grass5-admin, so I've come to thought that maybe
you're receiving any mail or it's causing you any inconvenience. In that
case, I would unsubscribe now(it should be tomorrow, I'm leaving to home)
from this address.

Regards

Gonzalo

That's very strange:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: grass5-admin@grass.itc.it [mailto:grass5-admin@grass.itc.it]
> Sent: Ninguno
> Subject: Incidencia del filtro
>
>
>
> Mensaje filtrado por Panda Antivirus
> Subject: r.mapcalc compile trouble - was Re: [GRASS5] I18N
> for GRASS: continued discussion
>
>
>
> http://www.pandasoftware.es
>

Here is the thread:
http://grass.itc.it/pipermail/grass5/2002-November/thread.html
Does anyone else here have similar problems or an idea about it?

Markus

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Markus Neteler wrote:

> I've getting some emails from grass5 filtered by my employer virus cleaner,
> in particular, the thread about I18N. I can read them on the web, and I'm
> talking to my employer to see if they can correct it(it seems wrong, as most
> of you post from Linux/Unix machines).

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: grass5-admin@grass.itc.it [mailto:grass5-admin@grass.itc.it]
> > Sent: Ninguno
> > Subject: Incidencia del filtro
> >
> >
> >
> > Mensaje filtrado por Panda Antivirus
> > Subject: r.mapcalc compile trouble - was Re: [GRASS5] I18N
> > for GRASS: continued discussion

Does anyone else here have similar problems or an idea about it?

I can't see anything in that thread which would be reasonbly expected
to trigger a virus scanner.

My guess is that the "virus scanner" just matches specific strings
without any regard for context. Nothing in that thread looks
particularly suspicious; unless the scanner keeps a record of exactly
which rule was triggered, there isn't much that can be done (unless
someone is willing to perform a bisection search until they find the
string which triggered it).

--
Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@virgin.net>