[meteorite-list] ALERT - GroupShield ticket numberOB8969_1174259872_DMG-X1_3 was generated

From: Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 19:52:03 -0500
Message-ID: <033401c769c0$cfcca0c0$ab7e4b44_at_ATARIENGINE>

Hi, All.

GroupShield for Exchange is MacAfee's AntiVirus
program for servers using Microsoft Exchange.

This site:
http://attrition.org/security/rant/av-spammers.html
calls their messages "advertising," and unnecessary
unwanted advertising at that, otherwise known as
SPAM, and rates it as the worst offender in this
regard.

Moreover, they actually help to propagate email
"worms." They often contain the virus they say
they're blocking. MacAfee claims that none of their
products send such autoresponders, but clearly,
that is not true. They are Advertising, pure and simple.

You can get a SpamAssassin filter to block bogus
virus warnings (if you use SpamAssassin) or just
Shift+Delete to permanently erase them.

Burn'em.


Sterling K. Webb
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Darren Garrison" <cynapse at charter.net>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2007 7:56 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] ALERT - GroupShield ticket
numberOB8969_1174259872_DMG-X1_3 was generated


On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 16:24:34 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:

>If somebody wants to try and figure out what is going
>on I just got this message in response to the zagora
>posting that I made a few minutes ago (I assume
>everybody got my zagora posting). The return email
>address is listed first then the actual mesasage:

>> The message was blocked because of its subject.

That seems to support my "unknown words" theory for attempts at spam
blocking--
the program's dictionary didn't recognize the word "Zagora" in the subject
line,
so it rejected it "because of the subject" trying to filter out the "random
subject words" spam. If you google up "groupshield ticket" you'll get
thousands
of then showing up in mailing list archives-- but I haven't seen a confirmed
explaination yet.
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