Suspicious email

system · 2007-12-16T17:09:39.000Z

After the last update, AVAST email screen is identifying html tags as suspicious. Most annoying and I think totally unnecessary

DavidR · 2007-12-16T18:00:18.000Z

I’m assuming you are on about the iFrame tag although you don’t state what.

If it is an iFrame tag, wait until you get bit on the a** by a malicious one and you won’t say they are totally unnecessary.

The iFrame tag in normally seen on web pages and is a very powerful function, it can import and run applications, etc. Now some emails use iFrames for advertising, etc. but there is nothing in the email that would say what might be run in an iFrame tag so it could as easily be malicious as it could an advert.

So if you can be a little more detailed about the origin and content of the email and perhaps we can come up with a solution ?

system · 2007-12-16T19:33:07.000Z

Yes it is the IFrame tag. The email was from a personal friend. It was a copy of an on-line newspaper article. I looked at the source code–nothing suspicious.

I think you are telling me not to be concerned, and to let Avast flag anything with this tag in it, just in case.

Thanks.

Lisandro · 2007-12-16T19:48:10.000Z

reuben post:3:

I think you are telling me not to be concerned, and to let Avast flag anything with this tag in it, just in case.

It is not ‘just in case’ but ‘just in this case’. I mean, if you know the email origin, ok, you can trust it but iFrame tag is a suspicious in a email.

DavidR · 2007-12-16T21:29:35.000Z

reuben post:3:

Yes it is the IFrame tag. The email was from a personal friend. It was a copy of an on-line newspaper article. I looked at the source code–nothing suspicious.

I think you are telling me not to be concerned, and to let Avast flag anything with this tag in it, just in case.

If this is a regular email and the newsletter has the same remote source (where it looks for the iFrame content), and you are happy it is OK then you can add this remote address (URL) to the Permitted URLs list. Internet Mail, Customize, Heuristics tag, Permitted URLs and Add the URL, see image.

It is more a case of investigating like you are doing and if a legit use and source you can add the remote address.

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