Re: AKICIF: "X-Kaspersky:" header

On 18-Mar-2008, Wim Lewis <wiml@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> In article <frgvia$g76$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Keith F. Lynch <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >Has anyone ever seen the X-Kaspersky: header line in any legitimate
> >emails, or does it only appear in spams?  Thanks.
>
> Some places seem to run virus/spam scanners on their outgoing mail
relays
> (presumably to catch zombies on their own network), and it wouldn't
> surprise
> me if Kaspersky had such a product. Kaspersky is an (AFAIK) legitimate
> company in the anti-virus business.
>
> Occasionally I'll get spam which went through such an outbound email
> scanner which detected that it was spam or botnet spew, marked it as
> such, and then forwarded it along to me anyway. I'm not sure what the
> point of that is. Maybe their admin gets notified if a machine trips
> the filter too many times or something.

I use AVG by Grissoft on my PCs.  I can set it to scan incoming/outgoing
emal (I do) and set it to certify (I don't) each way.  Only for viruses
through, and it doesn't use headers to certify, just adds a line to the
bottom of the email.

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The email fix is obvious.