As I mentioned, the file I sent *was* zipped. The title of the file was
"ChangeVBSBehavior.zip", so apparently *any* instance of the letters "vbs"
is triggering these virus scanners.

Laura Robinson
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Meister" <petermeimicrosoft.com>
To: "Ben Greenbaum" <bgreenbaumsecurityfocus.com>;
<focus-mssecurityfocus.com>
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 8:42 PM
Subject: RE: Your Virus Protection Programs

While it may bother certain people, I personally think bouncing is great
because it informs the sender of the error of there ways. Also, there
are ways around this as we all know, IE , change the extension or zip
it! So if its an important file, and to save all of us time in receiving
it, compress it and then send it...

Just my .02 cents ....

-Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Greenbaum [mailto:bgreenbaumsecurityfocus.com]
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 8:27 PM
To: focus-mssecurityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Your Virus Protection Programs

I would just like to point out that "working very well" is a relative
assessment, and furthermore is not neccessarily shared by the moderator
of
this list :P

C'mon people, we all know that there are better solutions than bouncing
every VBS attachment and emailing the sender.

Ben Greenbaum
Focus-MS Moderator

On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Laura A. Robinson wrote:

> All of your virus protection programs are working very well, if the
couple
> hundred quarantine/deletion/warning messages I've received since I
doinked
> and sent that .vbs file are any indication. :-)
>
> Laura A. Robinson
> Technical Instructor/Consultant
> MCT, MCSE, CLI, PCLP
> IntelliMark Pennsylvania Division
> http://www.intellimark-it.com
> lrobinsonintellimark-it.com
>

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