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Suspicious
« on: November 22, 2005, 12:41:29 AM »
I tried sending an email to Sasha today and when I hit the send button,
I was greeted with the following:


This email contained no attachments.
Since when is a plain email considered suspicious just because it doesn't
contain a subject?  ???
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Re: Suspicious
« Reply #1 on: November 22, 2005, 01:19:03 AM »
It has been like that within the avast Heuristic checking, emails without a subject can be trying to hide the intent or use social programming to get people to open it to find out what it is about. So it is possible an email without a subject line would be suspicious.

I know if I ever receive one (when viewed via mailwasher my first instint is to view it with suspicion. Just my heuristic brain or suspicious nature ;D

Hell, even OE prompts for a subject if you have left it blank when you click send.
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Re: Suspicious
« Reply #2 on: November 22, 2005, 01:25:45 AM »
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Hell, even OE prompts for a subject if you have left it blank when you click send
Which is fine it's a reminder and gives me an option to either fill it in or leave it out.
But I don't need a pop-up from avast! telling me that what I'm sending is suspicious just because
nothing is filled in the subject section.
Remember, I'm sending this email not receiving it.
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Re: Suspicious
« Reply #3 on: November 22, 2005, 01:34:44 AM »
Remember, I'm sending this email not receiving it.
Bob, maybe it's to avoid your email account spreading virus but, I think that the scanner does not make difference on inbound and outbound mail, scanning with the same options... who knows...?
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Re: Suspicious
« Reply #4 on: November 22, 2005, 01:41:59 AM »
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Bob, maybe it's to avoid your email account spreading virus
I don't know of any text messages that contain viruses. Do you?
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Re: Suspicious
« Reply #5 on: November 22, 2005, 01:42:59 AM »
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Hell, even OE prompts for a subject if you have left it blank when you click send
Which is fine it's a reminder and gives me an option to either fill it in or leave it out.
But I don't need a pop-up from avast! telling me that what I'm sending is suspicious just because
nothing is filled in the subject section.
Remember, I'm sending this email not receiving it.
avast doesn't know who is sending the message, just that one is being send and the subject line is blank and possibly suspicious.

Perhaps switching off the subject checks within the Heuristics Tabs, but that would apply permanently, it is probably easier to just put something in the subject.
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Re: Suspicious
« Reply #6 on: November 22, 2005, 01:44:20 AM »
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Bob, maybe it's to avoid your email account spreading virus
I don't know of any text messages that contain viruses. Do you?
No... just the eicar text into the message body...
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Re: Suspicious
« Reply #7 on: November 22, 2005, 01:46:18 AM »
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Bob, maybe it's to avoid your email account spreading virus
I don't know of any text messages that contain viruses. Do you?
Whist I'm not aware of any viruses in text emails doing the rounds, however, it is feasibly possible for text based emails to contain viruses also.
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Re: Suspicious
« Reply #8 on: November 22, 2005, 01:50:10 AM »
I don't understand something.
Why is it my fault that avast! deems a perfectly harmless e-mail as suspicious?
Remember, I paid for my copy of avast and should be able to find out why this is happening
without being told that it's easier to put something in the subject portion of an e-mail.
There are times when avast! could be improved. It's not always perfect.
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Re: Suspicious
« Reply #9 on: November 22, 2005, 01:54:21 AM »
No one is saying it is anyones fault, if you don't like the warning do something about it, improve it and remove the check.

I've tried to explain why I would consider an email might be considered suspicious because it doesn't have a subject line (I can't speak for avasts logic in thinking it suspicious), not apportion blame.

Edit: and by putting something in the subject line the recipient if they also use avast won't get the shock of their life upon receipt.
« Last Edit: November 22, 2005, 01:57:19 AM by DavidR »
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Re: Suspicious
« Reply #10 on: November 22, 2005, 02:00:17 AM »
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Edit: and by putting something in the subject line the recipient if they also use avast won't get the shock of their life upon receipt.
Just for your information, the recipient of this email didn't get a suspicious warning on his end even though it didn't contain a subject .
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Re: Suspicious
« Reply #11 on: November 22, 2005, 02:09:29 AM »
There are times when avast! could be improved. It's not always perfect.
This is one of them  8)

Just for your information, the recipient of this email didn't get a suspicious warning on his end even though it didn't contain a subject .
Strange... Isn't Heuristic module of Sasha turned on?
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Re: Suspicious
« Reply #12 on: November 22, 2005, 01:31:03 PM »
Not a single word from avast! Internet Mail provider when I received Bob's simple e-mail without any attachments, although it was without the subject line...

Yes, my settings are set to high, and you can see that e-mails should be checked by their subjects or lack of subject lines.

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Re: Suspicious
« Reply #13 on: November 22, 2005, 03:35:08 PM »
It may be that the other 'Check Subject' in Advanced Heuristics (requires Huristic setting of High or Custom) is the troublesome one, see image. You do need to set it to Custom to access the settings in the Heuristics Advanced Tab.
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Re: Suspicious
« Reply #14 on: November 22, 2005, 04:32:29 PM »
No I don't believe it's that... it's already checked by default, it's just, under HIGH those settings are greyed out (but still enabled).



And this is when settings are on MEDIUM (greyed out and disabled):



If you set it to Custom you'll get this (you'll just be able to edit them):

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