Dont spam scan, if its a virus
Mikael Syska
mikael at syska.dk
Wed Oct 10 12:01:43 IST 2007
Hi,
You are probebly right ... but if the loads get too high, I guess this
could be a option.
Also just wandered if people were doing something like this ... for some
reasons ... like the one above, or maybe for some other reasons, please
let me know
// ouT
Randal, Phil wrote:
> 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
> --
> Phil Randal
> Network Engineer
> Herefordshire Council
> Hereford, UK
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> 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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