Ethereal-dev: Re: Fwd: [Ethereal-dev]Add OICQ dissector :)

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 13:07:32 -0800
DuBingyao wrote:

When I sent Email, I get a reply of Symantec. Wow...... As follow.
Why?
*Symantec AVF detected that you sent a message with a prohibited attachment name (SYM:41607566581136366991)*
Probably because Symantec's Anti-Virus Filter thinks viruses are hidden in ".c" or ".diff" files, or because it really mean "with an attachment name that's not allowed" because it has a (presumably small) list of attachment name types it allows, and rejects everything else, rather than having a list of attachment name types it *rejects*, and allows everything else.
I don't know which of those is the case. You didn't get the error from the ethereal-dev list - you probably got it from somebody on ethereal-dev who's using that filter; those who don't use that filter (or who have it configured not to reject those messages, if it can be configured in that fashion) should have gotten the message. (I did, for example.)