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avast! Internet Mail virus information
« on: March 19, 2003, 06:46:54 PM »
First I must say, that avast! Internet Mail removes infected attachments from email just fine!

But I suppose that there should be a little more information in that cleaned message?

I tried with different email clients and WinXP (Pegasus, OE, Outlook, Eudora,Netscape), results are the same.
This test email had eicar.com attached.


Here is what is in the cleaned message:


Subject Test email

Some information for You!

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avast! (VPS 19.3.2003): virus info:




And here is the message source:

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Subject: Test email
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:19:29 +0200
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
   boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0005_01C2EE4C.76C93C20"
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106
X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 19.3.2003), Inbound message
X-Antivirus-Status: Infected

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C2EE4C.76C93C20
Content-Type: text/plain;
   charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Some information for You!

------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C2EE4C.76C93C20
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Description: virus info


avast! (VPS 19.3.2003): virus info:
------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C2EE4C.76C93C20--

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Re:avast! Internet Mail virus information
« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2003, 09:49:01 AM »
Yes, it certainly should. It will be fixed soon.