The text 'Not Virus Scanned' is prepended to my subject lines

In iCloud (mac.com) messages I send,   the text
"[Not Virus Scanned]" - it is being pre-pended to the subject line.
I hope that someone in the Apple/iCloud operations facility will actually look at what your
systems are doing. And I hope it is not the user named  "Winston Churchill".
Background:
Back in August 2012, someone asked whether Apple was virus scanning emails:
John W 1980
Aug 8, 2012 4:12 PM 
I reveived a password protected pdf by email. The subject line was marked [Not Virus Scanned]. Was this mark applied by the iCloud server?
iCloud 
This solved my question by Winston Churchill  on Aug 8, 2012 4:28 PM 
Welcome to the Apple Community.
No, it wasn't added by Apple
See the answer in context 
I have attached an email header (edited for privacy) to show this:
"Oracle Communications Messaging Server" running on st11p00mm-asmtp004.mac.com
Which is handling the messages, is running Fsecure Proofpoint, or something that is claiming to
be - SO apparently iCloud IS doing virus scanning, and has chosen to corrupt our Email subject lines
rather than simply stick to the conventional behavior of using SMTP headers to flag virus scan status.
The outgoing subject was   "Re: ...."
after passing through
st11p00mm-asmtp004.mac.com ([17.172.81.3])
(Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7u4-23.01(7.0.4.23.0) 64bit (built Aug
10 2011)) with ESMTPSA id <[email protected]>
Which IS an Apple system,
the subject reads 
[Not Virus Scanned] Re: ....
What else is Apple editing on the email it handles?
Return-path: <[email protected]>
Received: from st11p00mm-asmtp004.mac.com ([17.172.81.3])
by ms02552.mac.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7u4-26.01
(7.0.4.26.0) 64bit (built Jul 13 2012))
with ESMTP id <[email protected]> for [email protected]; Thu,
10 Jan 2013 19:40:24 +0000 (GMT)
Original-recipient: rfc822;[email protected]
Received: from [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]
(cpe-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-.rr.com [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx])
by st11p00mm-asmtp004.mac.com
(Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7u4-23.01(7.0.4.23.0) 64bit (built Aug
10 2011)) with ESMTPSA id <[email protected]> for
[email protected] (ORCPT [email protected]); Thu,
10 Jan 2013 19:40:24 +0000 (GMT)
X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure
engine=2.50.10432:5.9.8327,1.0.431,0.0.0000
definitions=2013-01-10_09:2013-01-10,2013-01-10,1970-01-01 signatures=0
X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0
ipscore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam
adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=6.0.2-1203120001
definitions=main-1301100166
References: <[email protected]>
<[email protected]>
In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
MIME-version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1085)
Message-id: <[email protected]>
Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary=Apple-Mail-20--564984355
From: XXX <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 11:40:21 -0800
To: YYY <[email protected]>
X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1085)
Subject: [Not Virus Scanned] Re: ....
---- end of attachment ----

We're all just users here. Neither Apple nor anyone from the 'iCloud operations facility' monitors these posts.
Nobody here has any inside knowledge of under what circumstances any emails are 'edited' (if in fact they are) by any email systems between sender and recipient.
In 12 years of using Apple's email systems I have never seen a single email subject changed. However prepending text is not 'corruption'. Corruption means the data is unreadable/inaccessible. Adding a few extra characters does not make the subject unreadable.
All responsible email providers scan email for viruses. From Google searches it appears that such a message is added by some virus scanners to the subject only when an email attachment cannot be read (such as a password protected file, or a deeply nested zip file) and it serves as a warning to the recipient to exercise caution before opening the email. How many users routinely check SMTP headers before opening potentially damaging emails?

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