R help - Jun 2003 - Your Message Contained a Potential Virus

Text: This is an automated message. Please read it carefully.

You should know that your recent email message detailed below, to Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, was identified as potentially containing a virus.

From: r-announce at lists.r-project.org
To: mitran at mskcc.org


If we have been able to repair your message, it has been delivered.  If we have
not, it has been blocked and the recipient(s) of your email have been informed
that the email has been blocked.

Please note that as a matter of policy certain attachment types are blocked by
default based on the file extension.  If you have a legitimate file to send
which is being blocked, please consider renaming the extension or enclosing it
within a ZIP file.

Thank You


Viruses found:

--- Scan information follows ---

Result: Virus Detected
Virus Name: W32.Sobig.C at mm
File Attachment: screensaver.scr
Attachment Status: deleted

--- Original message information follows ---

From: <r-announce at lists.r-project.org>
To: <mitran at mskcc.org>
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 21:38:00 --0400
Subject: Re: Application
Received: (from HZHANG2-LAP [24.74.137.211])
 by mskavs1.mskcc.org (SAVSMTP 3.1.1.32) with SMTP id M2003060321303704373
 for <mitran at mskcc.org>; Tue, 03 Jun 2003 21:30:38 -0400

Symantec_AntiVirus_mskavs1 at mskcc.org writes:
> Result: Virus Detected
> Virus Name: W32.Sobig.C at mm
> File Attachment: screensaver.scr
> Attachment Status: deleted
> 
> --- Original message information follows ---
> 
> From: <r-announce at lists.r-project.org>
> To: <mitran at mskcc.org>
> Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 21:38:00 --0400
> Subject: Re: Application
> Received: (from HZHANG2-LAP [24.74.137.211])
>  by mskavs1.mskcc.org (SAVSMTP 3.1.1.32) with SMTP id M2003060321303704373
>  for <mitran at mskcc.org>; Tue, 03 Jun 2003 21:30:38 -0400
Grrr.... Well they should go talk to mr./ms. Zhang about the virus on
his/her laptop shouldn't they? In any case, as far as I understand the
mail standards, delivery errors should go to the contents of the
Sender: field, not From:, exactly to avoid bothering entire mailing
lists.

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