"virus check bypassed" message on incoming emails????

[Lisa L from MI]

I have norton and have checked to see if everything is on...email scanning is on. BUT, I have just got 3 emails that have "virus check bypassed" in the subject line. They are from legit people...even one notification from the DIS CB.....

Anyone know what to do???

Thanks
I have win98 and outlook express 6


Lisa

 

[nativetxn]

I don't know what you should do. Have you asked this on the technical support board? They know this kind of stuff over there.

 

[Dan Murphy]

Never heard that one before, Lisa. My Norton screens every incoming and outgoing email, and never changes a subject line. Did you ask those people if they sent you emails?

 

[Bacrd]

I began getting the same thing tonight about 6pm. I'm running Norton 2003 ...so I can't imagine anything getting thru. WHAZZUP!!

 

[Lisa L from MI]

It scans all the "outgoing" mail just fine. But the incoming mail, I get the message on the subject line. It is even on all the replies to posts on the CB too.....and on some weather sites I frequent.

Maybe it is my cable modem........I pm'd you Bacrd....it could be comcast...not sure...but it is still going on...strange

 

[SuiteDisney]

Norton has deleted 83 emails today that contained a virus. EEK! I'm being swamped!

 

[KIRSTIN'S MOMMY]

I got this too, on 2 e-mails today. I have McAffee, so I guess it's not just Norton. But, I also have Comcast.

 

[Lisa L from MI]

I seem to be getting emails fine now....just about 4 of them.....I bet it was something to do with comcast.

 

[emmagata]

It's probably Comcast because I started seeing it tonight as well on both DIS notifications and regular SPAM email.

Comcast also adds the header "Spam Alert:" to some incoming messages. It's based on the domain name which it associates as being the source of Spam.

I use a program called mailwasher that allows me to see what emails are out there without actually downloading them. It also has the ability to blacklist and bounce a sender. When you bounce a sender, it sends a message back to the sender(or mail host) that basically says your email address doesn't exist. It seems to work by eventually eliminating SPAM from those emails that get bounced.