Re: [Security-Discuss] hopefully it's cleaned up

On May 27, 2004, at 9:17 AM, Anne Wilson wrote:

>> Ahhhh...  ok, I have something similar here (SpamSieve)... doesn't do
>> viruses tho, although they get tagged as spam.  It's actually quite
>> scary...
>>
> Pretty good results, too <g>

No, the results aren't bad... it's just the amount of spam i get 
compared to legitimate mail that irks me (and this is after my server 
punts all the very obvious spam, bad attachment files, etc.).

> I never thought to use it to filter out viruses until someone on the
> expert list said he did it.  I created a virused bucket, showed it 4
> that came in over the first 24 hours, and it has never failed since.  I
> have quarantine set for that bucket, so I can deal with them at
> leisure.  For the moment I'm holding a few to show as typical examples
> of virused emails.

Nice.  I use some attachment filtering at the MTA level to filter out 
bad attachments (unfortunately, this only works for stuff that comes to 
my personal accounts and not my mandrakesoft.com account, which is a 
PITA (and also where most of my spam/etc. comes from).

I actually get fairly little spam on my personal accounts due to how 
exim is setup, which is nice.

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