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On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Simon Waters wrote: > Seems harsh of those criticizing them for not providing it directly to > end users, as I'm guessing they have bills to pay like everyone else. I thought so too. Also, I am fairly sure Google never claimed they were going to stay ad-free. I do sometimes wonder who clicks on the ads - the only times the ads on Google search are relevant is when they are the same as one of the top results. Just having a good website with good content and proper HTML does so much more than buying ad space on Google. On topic: a lot of virus-scanning is (partly) based on heuristics. And unfortunately it has to be, as the people who write viruses never tell the anti-virus creators about the new viruses they have written, so there is always a time window during which a virus is active but unknown. Scanning based on heuristics is bound to give strange results though and there is always a small change that marks the difference between 'probably a virus' and 'probably no virus'. 'Photos' is probably a word that regularly occurs in emails that contain viruses, while 'Pictures' isn't. Also, the fact that the email contains 'Western union' (albeit in the To: field and for genuine reasons) probably doesn't help. I have seen a few companies whose spam filters blocked anything that contained the word 'virus'. Which is a bit unfortunate if you are discussion anti-virus software with one of their employees. Martijn. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html