Re: Symantec Virus Warnings (phony)

"Vanguard" <vanguard@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Oregano" wrote in message news:wXSDi.133863$rX4.69515@xxxxxxxxxxxx
I am regularly being spammed by a "tool" that tells me a file I sent had
a virus attached to it and the "warning" comes from ses.symantec.com. I
genuinely suspect this is bogus and were I to click on the link (I'm
replicating one of the "emails" below) then I'd probably be hijacked.
I've gone onto Symantec's site and tried to notify them of the thing,
sending the IP from which it comes. I'm using Outlook 2003 and I've set a
junk mail filter so they're automatically deleted. BUT THEY ARE ANNOYING.
What's even more annoying is Symantec's lack of a link anywhere on their
websites so you can "talk" to them. That's why I dropped Norton/Symantec
years ago. I'm protected with F-Secure, rebranded by my ISP as if it's
their own. Works for me.

Is there anything else I can do? Am I doing the right thing? It just goes
on and on and on. Been almost a year now. You'd think the buggers who get
tired when they got no response from my IP. But then maybe a computer
never gets tired...or gives up.

Replicated:
This message has been processed by Symantec's AntiVirus Technology.
message.scr was infected with the malicious virus W32.Sality.U and has
been deleted because the file cannot be cleaned.

For more information on antivirus tips and technology, visit
http://ses.symantec.com/


Your, ahem, "copy" of the e-mail is worthless to anyone except you. You
show no headers. You don't indicate if what you pasted was from the
rendering of an HTML-formatted e-mail or if the e-mail was in plain text.
Obviously the URL that *you* show here is in the Symantec domain but then
we don't know if that is where the URL points in an HTML-formatted e-mail.

Since only you have a copy of the purported e-mail, check the IP address
in the Received header for the sender to see if it belongs to Symantec.
If it is coming from Symantec then there is a very good chance that you
have submitted a file for them to analyze. For all we know, you
configured the Symantec software to forward a copy of whatever you
quarantine so they can analyze it.

Wow. Tacky response or what? Excuse me! Ok. Mr. Techy. I don't know how to
access the source code in Outlook 2003. It's easy in Outlook Express but
it's beyond me in Outlook 2003.


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