Virus slow down?

[Scott Silva]

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Alisdair Davey spake the following on 1/6/2006 8:44 AM:
> On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 11:35 -0500, DAve wrote:
> 
>>Is anyone else noticing a huge drop in viruses? Last night at 10pm EST 
>>my virus captures dropped to an all time low. I generally catch around 
>>1100 per day, per server, and I have only caught 60 so far today.
>>
>>Everything else in MailScanner MRTG looks good, Clam and BD are up to 
>>date, no problems in the logs. I don't suspect anything wrong on my end, 
>>just a pleasent lack of viruses.
> 
> 
> Since I upgraded to 4.48.4, I have had a week with pretty much zero
> virus detections (some filename catches by MailScanner)...after a couple
> of days of this it scared me! So I tried sending EICAR and a few less
> friendly viruses through the system and the detection seems to work
> fine. On the other hand spam detection is at an all time high! It looks
> like pretty much everything is being detected as High Spam.
> Cheers
> Alisdair
> 
> 
If you are using Pyzor, Razor, DCC a lot of the viruses that don't
mutate heavily are getting marked as spam. Be careful if you let users
release their own spam!


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