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ClamAV Notification Message (Virus Found)

If the Clam Anti Virus (ClamAV) software encounters a virus in an e-mail attachment, it will generate a new e-mail to you with information on which virus it found, and from whom the mail originated. Here is an example of such a notification e-mail:

  Subject: Virus intercepted
  Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:46:48 -0400 (EDT)
  From: MAILER-DAEMON@po0.glue.umd.edu
  To: nobody@po0.glue.umd.edu
  CC: userid@glue.umd.edu>
  
  WARNING!!! (from po0.glue.umd.edu)
  
  An email message
  You were sent an email message from admin@foo.com
  that contained a virus (Worm.Mytob.IV).
  This message has been deleted by the anti-virus scanner.
  
  The message headers follow:
  
  Received: from foo.com (c-69-251-112-75.hsd1.md.comcast.net
      [69.251.112.75]) by bar.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id
      k6BDkSt00718 for userid@glue.umd.edu>; Tue, 11 Jul
      2006 09:46:28 -0400
  Message-Id: <200607111346.k6BDkSt00718@bar.com>
  From: admin@foo.com
  To: userid@glue.umd.edu
  Subject: YOUR PASSWORD HAS BEEN SUCCESSFULLY UPDATED
  Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:46:40 -0400
  MIME-Version: 1.0
  Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
      boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0011_E9E58CF1.6091AA78"
  X-Priority: 3
  X-MSMail-Priority: Normal

Note that the original "From:" and "Subject" are preserved, so you can tell if it came from a valid address or is spam.

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