PQ virus?

[+Ed & Julie]

I have used the same email provider for years, and get a few PQs a month, and have never gotten the following message (until today):

 

Your AT&T Yahoo! Mail Virus Protection detected the virus 'Malformed container violation' in the file '143317.zip', attached to the enclosed email message.

 

We scanned the file using Norton AntiVirus but were unable to clean it. Therefore, we removed the content of the attachment from the message.

 

Please contact the message sender if you want to receive the attachment. They must clean the file and resend it before we can deliver it to you safely.

 

Has a Groundspeak changed some setting recently that might trigger a false virus alert?

[+trainlove]

I think it's the unlikely combination of events that make the contents of your particular PQ zip file have some bits of information that 'appear' to be the same as some signature value for a known virus.

[+Okiebryan]

One word... Gmail.

[+W8TTS]

I have used the same email provider for years, and get a few PQs a month, and have never gotten the following message (until today):

 

Your AT&T Yahoo! Mail Virus Protection detected the virus 'Malformed container violation' in the file '143317.zip', attached to the enclosed email message.

 

We scanned the file using Norton AntiVirus but were unable to clean it. Therefore, we removed the content of the attachment from the message.

 

Please contact the message sender if you want to receive the attachment. They must clean the file and resend it before we can deliver it to you safely.

 

Has a Groundspeak changed some setting recently that might trigger a false virus alert?

 

I get this about once a week from AT&T-Yahoo (YUK!). I rerun a copy of the PQ and it comes through without any problem. I complain to AT&T and it continues to happen. I guess either get rid of AT&T and their lousy Yahoo email system or as someone suggested, go to Gmail.

[+W8TTS]

An, another.

Edited November 24, 2008 by W8TTS

[+on4bam]

Sorry for the multiple post, but I kept getting an error that it hadn't gone through.

 

Hi Ted,

 

Didn't know you were a GC too

Done any LH caches??

[+W8TTS]

Sorry for the multiple post, but I kept getting an error that it hadn't gone through.

 

Hi Ted,

 

Didn't know you were a GC too

Done any LH caches??

 

Hi Maurice,

 

Yep. Been caching for a couple of years. With 3 LH caches.

[+TotemLake]

I have used the same email provider for years, and get a few PQs a month, and have never gotten the following message (until today):

 

Your AT&T Yahoo! Mail Virus Protection detected the virus 'Malformed container violation' in the file '143317.zip', attached to the enclosed email message.

 

We scanned the file using Norton AntiVirus but were unable to clean it. Therefore, we removed the content of the attachment from the message.

 

Please contact the message sender if you want to receive the attachment. They must clean the file and resend it before we can deliver it to you safely.

 

Has a Groundspeak changed some setting recently that might trigger a false virus alert?

 

I get this about once a week from AT&T-Yahoo (YUK!). I rerun a copy of the PQ and it comes through without any problem. I complain to AT&T and it continues to happen. I guess either get rid of AT&T and their lousy Yahoo email system or as someone suggested, go to Gmail.

Yah Comcast did the same thing with their virus scanner on the weekly email that was being sent out. I finally got tired of Comcast poisoning my incoming so I went to Gmail for all my Geocaching needs.