large word doc attachments in spam

[Gareth]

Perhaps its a new virus?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/11/exploit_wednesday/

On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 16:16, Martin.Hepworth wrote:
> All
> 
> Had reports (from the MD!) of large MS-Word attachments as spam. (300Kb)
> 
> Apart from Increasing the "Max Spam Check Size" setting to cover this and 
> seeing is SA traps this, has anyone else seen this technique?
> 
> -- 
> martin
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