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Old 15 Jan 2014, 09:15 AM   #3
n5bb
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Welcome to the EMD Forums, Clow!

As David says, that's obviously a fake message, and if you follow any links your computer may get infected with malware. A real virus notification message would look similar to the following:
  • From: postmaster@messagingengine.com
  • Subject: Infected file rejected
  • Message body starts with:
    We have just discarded a message because it tested as positive to a virus. The message details are:
  • If you examine the full headers (More > Show Raw Message), all Received headers show only Fastmail owned servers. The last Received header in the list (which is actually the first Received which happened, since the headers are added at the top in reverse order) has no from, since the virus notification message was internally generated and so was not received from any external server.
Bill
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