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Old July 3rd 08, 07:19 AM
noctufaber noctufaber is offline
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Unhappy Outlook rewrites subject line to "SPAM: [original subject]"

I'm working with a customer of mine who I believe has some form of malware on his machine that is rewriting the subject line for all of his outbound emails. Here are the symptoms.

1. The office has quite a few users and they all use the same SMTP server. Only one user is has this problem.
2. When the problem user composes an email with a certain subject, the recipient receives the email, but the subject is always preceded with SPAM:
3. The mail headers show that Spam Assassin looked at it, but scored it as non-spam.

Has anyone heard of or seen anything like this? Does any have any ideas how to fix it? I have included the mail headers below (with slight modifications to protect the innocent):

From - Wed Jul 2 22:31:32 2008
X-Account-Key: account5
X-UIDL: 1215019732.12766.avenger.weirdwares.com,S=3626
X-Mozilla-Status: 0001
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
X-Mozilla-Keys:
Return-Path:
Delivered-To:

Received: (qmail 12764 invoked by uid 89); 2 Jul 2008 17:28:52 -0000
Received: by simscan 1.3.1 ppid: 12743, pid: 12744, t: 3.2986s
scanners: attach: 1.3.1 clamav: 0.92/m:45/d:5110 spam: 3.1.7
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4 (2008-01-01) on
avenger.weirdwares.com
X-Spam-Level:
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,HTML_MESSAGE,
RDNS_NONE autolearn=no version=3.2.4
Received: from unknown (HELO problemuser.com) (127.0.0.1)
by avenger.weirdwares.com with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 2 Jul 2008 17:28:48 -0000
Received-SPF: pass (avenger.weirdwares.com: SPF record at problemuser.com designates 127.0.0.1 as permitted sender)
Received: from ADPFINANCE ([127.0.0.1])
by lasvegasferrari.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id m62HSlM9017683
for
; Wed, 2 Jul 2008 12:28:48 -0500
Reply-To:

From: "Problem User"

To: "'Support User'"

Subject: SPAM: Website
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 11:24:25 -0600
Message-ID: 049d01c8dc68$7a103090$0490a8c0@ADPFINANCE
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="----=_NextPart_000_049E_01C8DC36.2F75C090"
X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11
thread-index: AcjcaHl8gIrxSrn5TmqGq4RNiT0f5g==
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

------=_NextPart_000_049E_01C8DC36.2F75C090
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
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  #2  
Old July 3rd 08, 08:41 AM posted to microsoft.public.outlook
DL
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Posts: 2,598
Default Outlook rewrites subject line to "SPAM: [original subject]"

The word 'Spam' is generally appended by either the recepients anti spam/AV
application or their ISP's filters
Its unlikely to be anything to do with the senders PC, and certainly not
Outlook


"noctufaber" wrote in message
...

I'm working with a customer of mine who I believe has some form of
malware on his machine that is rewriting the subject line for all of
his outbound emails. Here are the symptoms.

1. The office has quite a few users and they all use the same SMTP
server. Only one user is has this problem.
2. When the problem user composes an email with a certain subject, the
recipient receives the email, but the subject is always preceded with
SPAM:
3. The mail headers show that Spam Assassin looked at it, but scored
it as non-spam.

Has anyone heard of or seen anything like this? Does any have any
ideas how to fix it? I have included the mail headers below (with
slight modifications to protect the innocent):

From - Wed Jul 2 22:31:32 2008
X-Account-Key: account5
X-UIDL: 1215019732.12766.avenger.weirdwares.com,S=3626
X-Mozilla-Status: 0001
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
X-Mozilla-Keys:

Return-Path:
Delivered-To:

Received: (qmail 12764 invoked by uid 89); 2 Jul 2008 17:28:52 -0000
Received: by simscan 1.3.1 ppid: 12743, pid: 12744, t: 3.2986s
scanners: attach: 1.3.1 clamav: 0.92/m:45/d:5110 spam: 3.1.7
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4 (2008-01-01) on
avenger.weirdwares.com
X-Spam-Level:
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.7 required=5.0
tests=AWL,BAYES_20,HTML_MESSAGE,
RDNS_NONE autolearn=no version=3.2.4
Received: from unknown (HELO problemuser.com) (127.0.0.1)
by avenger.weirdwares.com with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 2
Jul 2008 17:28:48 -0000
Received-SPF: pass (avenger.weirdwares.com: SPF record at
problemuser.com designates 127.0.0.1 as permitted sender)
Received: from ADPFINANCE ([127.0.0.1])
by lasvegasferrari.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id m62HSlM9017683
for
; Wed, 2 Jul 2008 12:28:48 -0500
Reply-To:

From: "Problem User"

To: "'Support User'"

Subject: SPAM: Website
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 11:24:25 -0600
Message-ID: 049d01c8dc68$7a103090$0490a8c0@ADPFINANCE
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="----=_NextPart_000_049E_01C8DC36.2F75C090"
X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11
thread-index: AcjcaHl8gIrxSrn5TmqGq4RNiT0f5g==
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

------=_NextPart_000_049E_01C8DC36.2F75C090
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit




--
noctufaber



  #3  
Old July 3rd 08, 01:34 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook
Diane Poremsky {MVP}
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Posts: 1,260
Default Outlook rewrites subject line to "SPAM: [original subject]"

While its very common for it to happen by mail server filtering, a 3rd party
antispam filter installed on the workstation could also be doing it.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/
Outlook 2007: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/

Outlook Tips by email:


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"DL" address@invalid wrote in message
...
The word 'Spam' is generally appended by either the recepients anti
spam/AV application or their ISP's filters
Its unlikely to be anything to do with the senders PC, and certainly not
Outlook


"noctufaber" wrote in message
...

I'm working with a customer of mine who I believe has some form of
malware on his machine that is rewriting the subject line for all of
his outbound emails. Here are the symptoms.

1. The office has quite a few users and they all use the same SMTP
server. Only one user is has this problem.
2. When the problem user composes an email with a certain subject, the
recipient receives the email, but the subject is always preceded with
SPAM:
3. The mail headers show that Spam Assassin looked at it, but scored
it as non-spam.

Has anyone heard of or seen anything like this? Does any have any
ideas how to fix it? I have included the mail headers below (with
slight modifications to protect the innocent):

From - Wed Jul 2 22:31:32 2008
X-Account-Key: account5
X-UIDL: 1215019732.12766.avenger.weirdwares.com,S=3626
X-Mozilla-Status: 0001
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
X-Mozilla-Keys:

Return-Path:

Delivered-To:

Received: (qmail 12764 invoked by uid 89); 2 Jul 2008 17:28:52 -0000
Received: by simscan 1.3.1 ppid: 12743, pid: 12744, t: 3.2986s
scanners: attach: 1.3.1 clamav: 0.92/m:45/d:5110 spam: 3.1.7
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4 (2008-01-01) on
avenger.weirdwares.com
X-Spam-Level:
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.7 required=5.0
tests=AWL,BAYES_20,HTML_MESSAGE,
RDNS_NONE autolearn=no version=3.2.4
Received: from unknown (HELO problemuser.com) (127.0.0.1)
by avenger.weirdwares.com with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 2
Jul 2008 17:28:48 -0000
Received-SPF: pass (avenger.weirdwares.com: SPF record at
problemuser.com designates 127.0.0.1 as permitted sender)
Received: from ADPFINANCE ([127.0.0.1])
by lasvegasferrari.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id m62HSlM9017683
for
; Wed, 2 Jul 2008 12:28:48 -0500
Reply-To:

From: "Problem User"

To: "'Support User'"

Subject: SPAM: Website
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 11:24:25 -0600
Message-ID: 049d01c8dc68$7a103090$0490a8c0@ADPFINANCE
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="----=_NextPart_000_049E_01C8DC36.2F75C090"
X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11
thread-index: AcjcaHl8gIrxSrn5TmqGq4RNiT0f5g==
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

------=_NextPart_000_049E_01C8DC36.2F75C090
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit




--
noctufaber



  #4  
Old July 3rd 08, 06:50 PM
noctufaber noctufaber is offline
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Posts: 2
Default

Thanks for checking into this. I believe it is likely a 3rd party tool on the workstation too. Does anyone know why a third part tool would mark your outbound emails with SPAM: in the subject? Does anyone know what tools do this?

Thanks,


Quote:
Originally Posted by Diane Poremsky {MVP} View Post
While its very common for it to happen by mail server filtering, a 3rd party
antispam filter installed on the workstation could also be doing it.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/
Outlook 2007: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/

Outlook Tips by email:


Outlook Tips:
http://www.outlook-tips.net/
Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com
Subscribe to Exchange Messaging Outlook newsletter:


** Please include your Outlook version, Account type, and Windows Version
when requesting assistance **




"DL" address@invalid wrote in message
...
The word 'Spam' is generally appended by either the recepients anti
spam/AV application or their ISP's filters
Its unlikely to be anything to do with the senders PC, and certainly not
Outlook


"noctufaber"
wrote in message
...

I'm working with a customer of mine who I believe has some form of
malware on his machine that is rewriting the subject line for all of
his outbound emails. Here are the symptoms.

1. The office has quite a few users and they all use the same SMTP
server. Only one user is has this problem.
2. When the problem user composes an email with a certain subject, the
recipient receives the email, but the subject is always preceded with
SPAM:
3. The mail headers show that Spam Assassin looked at it, but scored
it as non-spam.

Has anyone heard of or seen anything like this? Does any have any
ideas how to fix it? I have included the mail headers below (with
slight modifications to protect the innocent):

From - Wed Jul 2 22:31:32 2008
X-Account-Key: account5
X-UIDL: 1215019732.12766.avenger.weirdwares.com,S=3626
X-Mozilla-Status: 0001
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
X-Mozilla-Keys:

Return-Path:

Delivered-To:

Received: (qmail 12764 invoked by uid 89); 2 Jul 2008 17:28:52 -0000
Received: by simscan 1.3.1 ppid: 12743, pid: 12744, t: 3.2986s
scanners: attach: 1.3.1 clamav: 0.92/m:45/d:5110 spam: 3.1.7
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4 (2008-01-01) on
avenger.weirdwares.com
X-Spam-Level:
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.7 required=5.0
tests=AWL,BAYES_20,HTML_MESSAGE,
RDNS_NONE autolearn=no version=3.2.4
Received: from unknown (HELO problemuser.com) (127.0.0.1)
by avenger.weirdwares.com with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 2
Jul 2008 17:28:48 -0000
Received-SPF: pass (avenger.weirdwares.com: SPF record at
problemuser.com designates 127.0.0.1 as permitted sender)
Received: from ADPFINANCE ([127.0.0.1])
by lasvegasferrari.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id m62HSlM9017683
for
; Wed, 2 Jul 2008 12:28:48 -0500
Reply-To:

From: "Problem User"

To: "'Support User'"

Subject: SPAM: Website
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 11:24:25 -0600
Message-ID: 049d01c8dc68$7a103090$0490a8c0@ADPFINANCE
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="----=_NextPart_000_049E_01C8DC36.2F75C090"
X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11
thread-index: AcjcaHl8gIrxSrn5TmqGq4RNiT0f5g==
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

------=_NextPart_000_049E_01C8DC36.2F75C090
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit




--
noctufaber


  #5  
Old July 4th 08, 09:57 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook
Diane Poremsky {MVP}
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 1,260
Default Outlook rewrites subject line to "SPAM: [original subject]"

Check the workstation for antispam applications.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/
Outlook 2007: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/

Outlook Tips by email:


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** Please include your Outlook version, Account type, and Windows Version
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"noctufaber" wrote in message
...

Thanks for checking into this. I believe it is likely a 3rd party tool
on the workstation too. Does anyone know why a third part tool would
mark your outbound emails with SPAM: in the subject? Does anyone know
what tools do this?

Thanks,


Diane Poremsky {MVP};249821 Wrote:
While its very common for it to happen by mail server filtering, a 3rd
party
antispam filter installed on the workstation could also be doing it.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Need Help with Common Tasks?
http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/
Outlook 2007: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/

Outlook Tips by email:


Outlook Tips:
http://www.outlook-tips.net/
Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com
Subscribe to Exchange Messaging Outlook newsletter:


** Please include your Outlook version, Account type, and Windows
Version
when requesting assistance **




"DL" address@invalid wrote in message
...-
The word 'Spam' is generally appended by either the recepients anti
spam/AV application or their ISP's filters
Its unlikely to be anything to do with the senders PC, and certainly
not
Outlook


"noctufaber"
wrote in message
...-

I'm working with a customer of mine who I believe has some form of
malware on his machine that is rewriting the subject line for all of
his outbound emails. Here are the symptoms.

1. The office has quite a few users and they all use the same SMTP
server. Only one user is has this problem.
2. When the problem user composes an email with a certain subject,
the
recipient receives the email, but the subject is always preceded with
SPAM:
3. The mail headers show that Spam Assassin looked at it, but scored
it as non-spam.

Has anyone heard of or seen anything like this? Does any have any
ideas how to fix it? I have included the mail headers below (with
slight modifications to protect the innocent):

From - Wed Jul 2 22:31:32 2008
X-Account-Key: account5
X-UIDL: 1215019732.12766.avenger.weirdwares.com,S=3626
X-Mozilla-Status: 0001
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
X-Mozilla-Keys:

Return-Path:

Delivered-To:

Received: (qmail 12764 invoked by uid 89); 2 Jul 2008 17:28:52 -0000
Received: by simscan 1.3.1 ppid: 12743, pid: 12744, t: 3.2986s
scanners: attach: 1.3.1 clamav: 0.92/m:45/d:5110 spam: 3.1.7
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4 (2008-01-01) on
avenger.weirdwares.com
X-Spam-Level:
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.7 required=5.0
tests=AWL,BAYES_20,HTML_MESSAGE,
RDNS_NONE autolearn=no version=3.2.4
Received: from unknown (HELO problemuser.com) (127.0.0.1)
by avenger.weirdwares.com with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 2
Jul 2008 17:28:48 -0000
Received-SPF: pass (avenger.weirdwares.com: SPF record at
problemuser.com designates 127.0.0.1 as permitted sender)
Received: from ADPFINANCE ([127.0.0.1])
by lasvegasferrari.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id m62HSlM9017683
for
; Wed, 2 Jul 2008 12:28:48 -0500
Reply-To:

From: "Problem User"

To: "'Support User'"

Subject: SPAM: Website
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 11:24:25 -0600
Message-ID: 049d01c8dc68$7a103090$0490a8c0@ADPFINANCE
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="----=_NextPart_000_049E_01C8DC36.2F75C090"
X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11
thread-index: AcjcaHl8gIrxSrn5TmqGq4RNiT0f5g==
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

------=_NextPart_000_049E_01C8DC36.2F75C090
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit




--
noctufaber-

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--
noctufaber


 




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