Sobig getting tagged as spam not virus

[John Rudd]

On Friday, Aug 22, 2003, at 06:58 US/Pacific, Julian Field wrote:

> So the whole argument depends on
> 1) How your CPU power relates to your network speed
> 2) What the balance is of infected mail versus spam mail
> 3) What you do with most of your spam (i.e. delete it or not)
> 4) and probably some other factors I haven't thought of yet.
>
> So it's a very difficult choice, and one that changes with
>         a) your setup, and
>         b) the characteristics of your incoming mail at any given
> point in
> time.
>

Since we don't delete any spam, it's probably not saving us much.

How hard would it be to have the order be configurable?

Scanning Order = filename virus spam dnsbl
Scanning Order = spam dnsbl virus filename

etc.