Re: Same virus again and again

Marian Olteanu <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.ximian.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
--- 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 The outdated-for-years SA version running on this list server still uses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/


		
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