geofan49 Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 Specifically, HOW can a virus be reported? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevenUnderwood Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 Specifically, HOW can a virus be reported? Actually, it would be the email that contained the virus that could be reported. It would be reported the same way as any other spam is, submitting it via the paste in box or forwarding as attachment. Please be careful how you handle the virus though as you would not want to infect your own system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wazoo Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 Specifically, HOW can a virus be reported? Basically, see OE6 Secure handling of e-mail, Why Forward won't work and apply that knowledge to whatever e-mail client you are using .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geofan49 Posted September 26, 2006 Author Share Posted September 26, 2006 Actually, it would be the email that contained the virus that could be reported. It would be reported the same way as any other spam is, submitting it via the paste in box or forwarding as attachment. Please be careful how you handle the virus though as you would not want to infect your own system. So, if I use Yahoo mail, and I am simply doing the "Forward as Attachement" is that sufficient to report a virus? I see that forwarding from Yahoo normally includes any attachment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wazoo Posted September 27, 2006 Share Posted September 27, 2006 Extracted from a Topic in the "How to use ..." Forum section .. moved to the Reporting Help section ... Whn you sort it out, care to write up a tutorial to explain it to the next person with the same question? PM sent to advise of the action ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turetzsr Posted September 27, 2006 Share Posted September 27, 2006 <snip> I see that forwarding from Yahoo normally includes any attachment. ...As I understand it, the default forwarding action for a Yahoo!Mail account (at least for a free US account) is to forward as in-line text, not forward as attachment. Forward as attachment would be the method you would have to use for SpamCop. ...Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevenUnderwood Posted September 27, 2006 Share Posted September 27, 2006 ...As I understand it, the default forwarding action for a Yahoo!Mail account (at least for a free US account) is to forward as in-line text, not forward as attachment. Forward as attachment would be the method you would have to use for SpamCop. I just tried my free Yahoo account for the first time in a while and the forward button is now a pulldown that offers both options, in-line and as attachment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Telarin Posted September 27, 2006 Share Posted September 27, 2006 You can also go into your options and change the default to "Forward as Attachment" that is what I have mine set at since the only thing that gets forwarded from my Yahoo account is spam to spamcop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geofan49 Posted January 4, 2007 Author Share Posted January 4, 2007 You can also go into your options and change the default to "Forward as Attachment" that is what I have mine set at since the only thing that gets forwarded from my Yahoo account is spam to spamcop. Yeah, that is how I have been using SpamCop since day one with Yahoo web mail client. Works great! Too bad that method does NOT work with GMAIL, must copy and paste the email into the SpamCop webform, forward GMAIL does not work... with SpamCop... My question is, if I do the "Yahoo forward as attachment", and that attachment incudes the virus attachment, will the virus get reported too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farelf Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 ... My question is, if I do the "Yahoo forward as attachment", and that attachment incudes the virus attachment, will the virus get reported too?If I understand the question correctly - "yes", the viral attachment simply shows as a code area in the message body and is ignored by the parser (there should be a comment in the parse to that effect). No harm is done in the process, the sender is reported - and reporting virus senders is OK within SC guidelines (though not spam by many definitions). You would need to submit the email (or the viral part of it) for testing by an anti-virus application to get any detail about the virus itself, which is separate from SC reporting. One tool for that is mentioned in VirusTotal, Multiple AV scanner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlphaCentauri Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 Specifically, HOW can a virus be reported? I review my email in Mailwasher to delete spam before opening it with my mail program, so viruses just show up as in-line text, and my filters recognize the executable file types and flag the emails. I like to track down the sending system and contact the system administrator myself (unless it is some foreign IP # whose owner could not possibly have my email address for any legitimate reason). I truncate the virus after the first few lines and add "[snip]" so they can see it was a virus. I think it is important enough to try to stop viruses, and presumably these viruses are being addressed to me by finding my email address in the address book of the victim, so it may well be someone I know. Also, I often have to mail back and forth a few times with admins who are clueless enough to try to say it didn't come from their system because the forged return address is not their ISP's domain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Telarin Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 I often have to mail back and forth a few times with admins who are clueless enough to try to say it didn't come from their system because the forged return address is not their ISP's domain. You should have to have a license to operate a mail server. I encounter WAY to many admins that use exactly that response and have to have their hand held through the process of actually reading mail headers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlphaCentauri Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 You should have to have a license to operate a mail server. Most commonly, I see it when it is an elementary or high school domain. I imagine the technology teacher is stuck with the job of running their mail server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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