Is this spam or what?

[meneer]

My Spamassassin and K9 missed this one... It looks like a reply to a worm mail (and I almost deleted it as such), but it sure looks like spam to me:
-{ Quote: "Attention:

A Spyware or virus was found in an Email message you sent.
This Email scanner intercepted it and stopped the entire message reaching its destination.

Please update your Spyware or virus scanner or contact your IT support
personnel as soon as possible as you have a virus or Spyware on your system.

We Recommend using BulletProofSoft.com 's Spyware/Virus/Trojan remover

For more information visit:
http://www.Bulletproofsoft.com

Note: Spyware is a relatively new kind of threat that common anti-virus
applications do not yet cover. If you are seeing things like
excessive popups, new toolbars in your Internet Explorer that you
didn't intentionally install, if your browser crashes, or if you
browser start page has changed without your knowing, you most
probably have spyware.

Visit BulletProofSoft.com for more information http://www.bulletproofsoft.com

--------
Virus/Spyware detected by BulletProofSoft.com Spyware Remover.." }-

[sig]

Certainly looks like Spam to me also. Who's the "we" allegedly recommending BulletProof?

[meneer]

I don't know we :)
It's sent from h4host at h4host.com, that's all. They look like a hosting provider.

[Paranoid2000]

Yes, it's the virus-scanner response spam! Designed to make a bad problem worse (the overloading of servers by email viruses) some scanners even go so far as to return the virus infected attachment. Since so many viruses use spoofed return addresses, this is pretty ineffectual and when a plug for the software is included - well I would be tempted to forward it on to BulletProof with a note thanking them for showing you how dumb their software really is. ;D

[optigrab]

-{ Quote: "...some scanners even go so far as to return the virus infected attachment..." }-
Astonishing!
:o How on Earth could anyone justify this practice?