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RJ100
February 12th, 2004, 10:05 PM
Update your Sophos AV asap.

-{ Quote: "Sophos' anti-virus software can be bypassed by a virus-laden e-mail if it doesn't contain any MIME boundary definitions, the company has admitted. MIME, or Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, is the basic protocol used for sending graphic, audio and video on e-mail. But Sophos has found that Delivery Status Notifications generated by qmail mail servers (the second-largest in number on the Net) that are infected with the MyDoom virus slip through the anti-virus software undetected." }-

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Take care

swisscoms
February 12th, 2004, 10:55 PM
Thanks RJ, my job in the U.K. uses this software, so I have informed them. ;)