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Virus Scanner Error

December 2, 2005

To:  UCOP Personnel
From:  Julian Blauth, UNIX/Linux Systems Manager, Information Resources and Communications

Early this morning we experienced an error on one of our virus scanners. The result is that some email messages (mainly text and html notification messages for IT staff) were sent without the text and the following warning message inserted:

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Warning: UCOP VIRUS SCANNER ALERT:
This message had the following potentially dangerous attachment(s) (the
entire message) removed due to virus detection.  Contact your PC
Coordinator for more information.
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If you received such a message, please have your email resent. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. Please direct any questions to IR&C Helpdesk at helpdesk@ucop.edu or 987-0349.

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