Virii detection very low

[Jeff A. Earickson]

I too have noticed low, but not non-zero, virus detection rates
from Sophos and Clam in the last week or two.  Clam is more
useful for phishing than anything else.  I've wondered about this
trend.

Jeff Earickson
Colby College

On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Dennis Willson wrote:

> Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:52:32 -0700
> From: Dennis Willson <taz at TAZ-MANIA.COM>
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> Subject: Re: Virii detection very low
> 
> I got one yesterday, none so far today and none for the previous two days. 
> Normally I see 1-2 a day. I used to see more, but when I added Greylisting 
> most of them went away :)
>
> Dennis
>
> Ed Bruce wrote:
>> We only get about 2k-3k incoming email/day - but over the last 15 days no 
>> virii were detected. Normally we get around 2-3 infected emails/day. 
>> Anybody else seeing a lot fewer infected emails then normal? I just get a 
>> little worried when nothing is seen.
>> 
>> later,
>> Ed
>> 
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