Lots of SpamAssassin timeouts today

[Julian Field]

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This is a new virus that F-Secure phoned me about today. F-Secure call 
it Sober.Y.

Jason Williams wrote:

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>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
>Behalf Of Stephen Swaney
>Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 11:48 AM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: Lots of SpamAssassin timeouts today
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
>>Behalf Of Michele Neylon:: Blacknight.ie
>>Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 2:41 PM
>>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>Subject: Re: Lots of SpamAssassin timeouts today
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>>Jason Williams wrote:
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>>>Not sure if anything is going on, but I've noticed today that I have
>>>been seeing a lot of SpamAssassin timeouts on my server today:
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>>It's usually DNS related or can be resolved with increasing the
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>timeout.
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>>I think it's covered in the wiki / maq somewhere
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>>Mr Michele Neylon
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>>Probably not related but there is a LOT of virus activity today. One
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>client
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>>reports:
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>>	Processed:	25,082	1.2Gb
>>	Clean:	8,937		35.6%
>>	Viruses:	12,945	51.6%
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>>High load can also cause SpamAssassin timeouts.
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>>Steve
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>Can DNS timeouts cause a higher load on the server than normal?
>
>I've noticed a little bit higher load average than normal on the server
>today?
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>I think a new virus came out yesterday or today. I see a lot of rejects
>from cia.gov with a .exe. ClamAV picks it up as mytop of some sort.
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>Thanks,
>
>Jason
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