F-prot update

Raymond Dijkxhoorn raymond at PROLOCATION.NET
Sat Mar 6 17:09:36 GMT 2004


Hi!

> > The problem is that the virus writers can produced a hundred different
> > strings every day. You have to start using an engine like SpamAssassin to
> > try to find them, wherever you can have hundreds of rules and give each
> > word a probability of being the password. Big problem.
>
> You can't get them all, so why bother getting any?
>
> Rather than being preoccupied with what hypothetical "might happen" tomorrow
> and giving up immediately before even starting -- why not focus on what we
> _can_ catch, right now, today, this very instant, that would generate
> positive results stemming the _current_ avalanche of abuse?
>
> Or am I the only one who sees benefits in effort to mitigate _current_
> abuse?

If you feel like writing this, go ahead, it would be easier to do this
inside SpamAssassin if you ask me.

Bye,
Raymond.



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