265451 - Forwarding message as attachment with certain subjets can trigger rejections from virus scanners

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 220646

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Carey Jones]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/125.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913)

It seems that Thunderbird's default behaviour is to use a message's subject as the filename when 
forwarding a message as an attachment.  So, if I were to forward a message with a subject of something 
like "Check out this article on theonion.com", that would look like a .com file to any virus scanners, 
resulting in rejections such as:

550 Error: Common virus payload files .pif, .scr, .com, and .cpl blocked (eg. W32/Sobig). To send this 
file, please zip it first

I realize this is more of a problem with virus scanners rather than Thunderbird, but I thought you all 
should be aware of the issue

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 220646 ***