Sobig getting tagged as spam not virus

[Julian Field]

At 12:18 21/08/2003, you wrote:
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
>Behalf
> >Of Matthew Bowman
> >Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 10:27 AM
> >To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> >Subject: Sobig getting tagged as spam not virus
> >
> >
> >Hi,
> >
> >Mail with the Sobig.F message body is coming in with and without an
> >attachment, therefore we get {SPAM?} or  {VIRUS?} tagged e-mail. The score
> >for the spam messages is the same 5.9.
> >
> >Anyone else seeing this too?
> >
> >
> >Matthew
>
>We get this aswell. The messages are tagged as spam but only
>contains "Please see the attached file for details." (no file attached)
>
>Our scores are not the same though, they all seem to trigger DCC, Pyzor or
>Razor rules in Spamassassin (2.60)
>
>
>If a message contains a silent virus but also registers as spam, would it
>be delivered? (ssems so in this case)

The virus-infected messages and the spam messages are separate. They are
all caused by the same thing, but don't expect all this mail to be
virus-infected, it's not.
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Julian Field
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