Re: fake virus warnings on Hotmail
From: Andrew (yogig_at_nospam.hotmail.com)
Date: 03/01/05
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Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 11:56:02 -0800
Doug Quandary wrote:
> Someone sends me two attachments and one PDF file. Hotmail reports
> UNKNOWN VIRUS. I get them resent to a gmail account and they download
> no problem.
>
> As a test I create an empty document using Wordpad on a clean machine.
> Sent the attachments to Gmail and Hotmail. Got downloaded from Gmail no
> problem. On Hotmail I got this:
>
> "UNKNOWN VIRUS"
>
> Moved to another machine and got this:
>
> "ERROR
> Due to an internal error your request cannot be processed. We apologize
> for the inconvenience. Please try again later. If you are attempting
> to reactivate your Hotmail account, we're sorry but your request cannot
> be processed at this time. Please do the following: Close all web
> browser windows. Restart your web browser. "
>
> Went back to the first machine and old emails are now reported as
> having `UNKNOWN VIRUS.'
>
> Is this because I use Firefox on Linux. As when I move back to XP the
> problem mysteriously disappears.
>
> It appears that once triggered this behavior causes other intermittent
> errors. Such as empty attachments or the file type stripped off. None
> of this happens on Gmail or Yahoo.
>
> Would anyone out there like to try and see if it happens to them ?
>
I've had it happen when trying to send .jpeg attachments to myself via
hotmail.
Hotmail seems to like Konq better than firefox.
-- Andrew 00 Daytona 00 Speed Triple
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