Dont spam scna, if its a virus

Randal, Phil prandal at herefordshire.gov.uk
Wed Oct 10 10:30:52 IST 2007


I think it's a bad idea.

If they are scoring that highly then they'll be training Bayes so that
new variants of this malware are likely to be marked as spam, even
before virus patterns are available.

Cheers,

Phil
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Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf 
> Of mikael at syska.dk
> Sent: 10 October 2007 10:10
> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> Subject: Dont spam scna, if its a virus
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I thinking of disabling spam scan on messages, if they 
> contain viruses as
> I have just installed the "sanesecurity" ... scam and phising 
> signatures
> 
> Many of the messages score 30+ ... and are also marked as 
> virus, so also
> scanning seems to be waste of time ....
> 
> But how do I do that in MailScanner, I must be missing some 
> very simple,
> cause IIRC there was a post about this a few month ago ...
> 
> Also ... if this is a bad idea to do ... please tell.
> 
> // ouT
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