Virii detection very low

[Julian Field]

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Well, they must all be coming to us instead. Noticeably higher detection 
rate over the past week than the 3 weeks before it.

Jeff A. Earickson wrote:

> 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>
>> Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
>> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>> 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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