Any explanations gratefully recieved.

[David Sullivan]

On 20 Mar 2002 at 11:00, Shane Kelly wrote:

> I got a call from a user who reported a virus in an email - this is such an
> unusual occurrence these days that I went personally to get the details.
>
> The following are the headers from the email, and the log entry pertaining to
> it. Any thoughts ?


> SUBJECT: #_èr ,
> ]m04UoY2©ð7<«C¯9O©zMbY6k

>
> mailscanner is a mail gateway with mailscanner/sophos installation, the virus
> reported was magistra.
>

See a previous thread on this:

http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A1=ind0203&L=mailscanner#24

The headers of your message show that exactly the same virus and reasons that
it was missed are involved.

Regards

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                            David.Sullivan at barnet.ac.uk
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