Re: Same virus again and again
Marian Olteanu <[email protected]>
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--- guenther <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I saw the same virus again and again on this ximian lists. Can > > somebody do something so this virus > > > will not be send again? For example, do not accept Content-Type: > > application/octet-stream > > > > Actually it should be easier than that. If you look at the headers > > you'll notice that it's already been flagged as spam (the latest one had > > 11.2 hits out of 5.0 required). It seems like the cool thing would be to > > configure the list server so that it wouldn't forward spam. > > Sorry, no. > > The outdated-for-years SA version running on this list server still uses > a lot of bogus rules, which where dropped by the SA developers in later > versions for a reason. All Reply and Quoting rules are abused by > Spammers these days, for example. > > ORBS and Osirusoft DNSBLs are down for a long time. The servers reply to > any test with a SPAM score. Thus, as these network tests are still used > by this list server, [1] every single mail gets biased towards being > spammy. Which renders the "SPAM above 5.0" rule useless. [2] > > Beside all that: SA is *not* designed to trigger on Virii. Really. Ask > on the SA mailing list, but prepare to get flamed. ;-) If it scores > virus mails high, that's more a coincidence. And I personally consider > it false learning, if it does. > Great :-D ===== Marian http://www.utdallas.edu/~mgo031000/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 _______________________________________________ Users maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/users