Grreting card scams

Glenn Steen glenn.steen at gmail.com
Fri Jul 27 12:25:09 IST 2007


On 27/07/07, Greg Matthews <gmatt at nerc.ac.uk> wrote:
> Glenn Steen wrote:
> > On 27/07/07, UxBoD <uxbod at splatnix.net> wrote:
> >> Okay, have done some testing.  For the signature to trigger it has
> >> to have a source file that contains the message body, and the
> >> following headers :-
> >>
> >> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;
> >>
> >> otherwise it reports the file as being okay.
> >
> > Kind of what I thought... It doesn't understand that it is a mail it
> > is handling.:-(
> >
> > Jules, how would you like to play this one? I suspect that whatever
> > we do might end up being ... less than elegant... Unless you have
> > some inspiration...:-)
>
> surely if clam doesnt catch it when called by MS then you should catch
> it with SA instead. Clam already muddies the waters between spam and
> viruses, why go to any trouble to catch this when there is an adequate
> solution (using KAM.cf)?
>
AFAICS I catch them all with SA _without_ KAM.cf...;)
So yes, this might not be a big problem, for now. But as someone
mentioned (somewhere:-) this will be an increased problem over time...
So I'm not sure we can just ignore it.

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-- Glenn
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