[Leaplist] File Transfers

[Jason Boxman]

On Friday 04 September 2009 11:24:48 pm Jason Boxman wrote:
> On Friday 04 September 2009 10:49:39 pm Bruce Metcalf wrote:
> > Bruce Metcalf wrote:
> > > I am relocating the email files for Thunderbird/Icedove from our
> > > laptop to our desktops. I'm making the transfer in two stages: first
> > > from the laptop to the file server, then from the file server to the
> > > desktops.
> > >
> > > My files moved easily to my (Linux) desktop. I am having severe
> > > trouble transferring my wife's email files to her (Win2kPro) desktop.
> >
> > Okay, crisis overcome. Had to delete the .parentlock file and force
> > inherited properties on all the files.
> >
> > I swear, some day I'm going to just refuse to work on her Windoze box
> > any more. Probably the day I decide to start sleeping outside though.
>
> No kidding.  I had a Zimbra install that would croak on certain files. 
> Took days of investigation to learn that AVG 8 eats any file that has an
> extension of *.msg and happens to match the heuristics for some trojan or
> another.  I can't remember the last time AVG actually accomplished anything
> -- it fails for me in prevention and cleanup -- so I ought to uninstall it
> on all boxes.

Oh, and it wasn't matching email files that actually had trojans.  These were 
ordinary email messages that AVG felt were otherwise extraordinary in their 
content.  I hand verified that none had trojans or generally even attachments 
or even HTML content.  Just utter false positives.  Fail.



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