OT: "OMG YOU SENT TEH VIRUSESS"

[Dhawal Doshy]

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Jason Balicki wrote:
> Like a lot of you, I'm on a lot of mailing lists.
> 
> Because of this, I get a large amount of garbage
> mail.  One particular type of garbage mail is
> mis-configured mail scanning suites that send
> "virus received" warning messages.  You all know
> why this is bad, so I won't discuss this.  I'll
> just say that it annoys me greatly -- especially
> when my users receive them and I have to go
> through the incredibly boring explanation of
> what happened yet again.
> 
[snip]
> 
> Has anyone had any success with these situations
> before?  Any magic words that seem to help
> straighten out the offending parties?
> 

If i understand correctly you need Tim Jackson's (et al) bogus virus 
warnings from http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/bogus-virus-warnings.cf

rules_du_jour will take care of this downloading on a daily basis.

Just make sure you remove some MailScanner (yup a badly / PHB configured 
MailScanner can also generate this garbage) related stuff or add the 
following in spam.assassin.prefs.conf

score   VIRUS_WARNING15   0
score   VIRUS_WARNING28   0
score   VIRUS_WARNING33   0
score   VIRUS_WARNING62   0
score   VIRUS_WARNING66   0
score   VIRUS_WARNING226  0
score   VIRUS_WARNING250  0
score   VIRUS_WARNING300  0
score   VIRUS_WARNING326  0
score   VIRUS_WARNING339  0
score   VIRUS_WARNING340  0

- dhawal

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