I tried sending an email to Sasha today and when I hit the send button,
I was greeted with the following:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v190/bob3160/Suspicious.jpg
This email contained no attachments.
Since when is a plain email considered suspicious just because it doesn’t
contain a subject? ???
It has been like that within the avast Heuristic checking, emails without a subject can be trying to hide the intent or use social programming to get people to open it to find out what it is about. So it is possible an email without a subject line would be suspicious.
I know if I ever receive one (when viewed via mailwasher my first instint is to view it with suspicion. Just my heuristic brain or suspicious nature ;D
Hell, even OE prompts for a subject if you have left it blank when you click send.
Hell, even OE prompts for a subject if you have left it blank when you click sendWhich is fine it's a reminder and gives me an option to either fill it in or leave it out. But I don't need a pop-up from avast! telling me that what I'm sending is suspicious just because nothing is filled in the subject section. Remember, I'm sending this email [b] not[/b] receiving it.
Bob, maybe it’s to avoid your email account spreading virus but, I think that the scanner does not make difference on inbound and outbound mail, scanning with the same options… who knows…?
Bob, maybe it's to avoid your email account spreading virusI don't know of any text messages that contain viruses. Do you?
avast doesn’t know who is sending the message, just that one is being send and the subject line is blank and possibly suspicious.
Perhaps switching off the subject checks within the Heuristics Tabs, but that would apply permanently, it is probably easier to just put something in the subject.
No… just the eicar text into the message body…
Whist I’m not aware of any viruses in text emails doing the rounds, however, it is feasibly possible for text based emails to contain viruses also.
I don’t understand something.
Why is it my fault that avast! deems a perfectly harmless e-mail as suspicious?
Remember, I paid for my copy of avast and should be able to find out why this is happening
without being told that it’s easier to put something in the subject portion of an e-mail.
There are times when avast! could be improved. It’s not always perfect.
No one is saying it is anyones fault, if you don’t like the warning do something about it, improve it and remove the check.
I’ve tried to explain why I would consider an email might be considered suspicious because it doesn’t have a subject line (I can’t speak for avasts logic in thinking it suspicious), not apportion blame.
Edit: and by putting something in the subject line the recipient if they also use avast won’t get the shock of their life upon receipt.
Edit: and by putting something in the subject line the recipient if they also use avast won't get the shock of their life upon receipt.Just for your information, the recipient of this email didn't get a suspicious warning on his end even though it didn't contain a subject .
This is one of them 8)
Strange… Isn’t Heuristic module of Sasha turned on?
Not a single word from avast! Internet Mail provider when I received Bob’s simple e-mail without any attachments, although it was without the subject line…
Yes, my settings are set to high, and you can see that e-mails should be checked by their subjects or lack of subject lines.
It may be that the other ‘Check Subject’ in Advanced Heuristics (requires Huristic setting of High or Custom) is the troublesome one, see image. You do need to set it to Custom to access the settings in the Heuristics Advanced Tab.
No I don’t believe it’s that… it’s already checked by default, it’s just, under HIGH those settings are greyed out (but still enabled).
http://img498.imageshack.us/img498/9515/untitleda2xl.jpg
And this is when settings are on MEDIUM (greyed out and disabled):
http://img486.imageshack.us/img486/3894/untitleda7lr.jpg
If you set it to Custom you’ll get this (you’ll just be able to edit them):
I’ve spotted the relevant words ‘outbound messages’ in the Note section, so it would only effect the sender and not the recipient, which to me doesn’t make sense.
If it is suspicious when it is sent, it should still be suspicious when it is received ???
Exactly, and that’s exactly what I’m thinking… but regardless of those settings, and what the line up there (NOTE) says, if avast! is checking the subject of those messages when they are leaving your outbox, IMHO it should also check them before they arrive in your inbox, right ?
And guess what… I just sent one message without a subject line to myself… no warning when sending, nor when I received that same message… I see avast! is checking the message (blue bar down there by the taskbar) and every single message is signed by avast!
Can’t Vojtech or Forejt say something about this?
This is even stranger :
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This is even strangerWe are now well into page 2 and still no word from Alwil that's what's strange.....