Viruses flagged as spam too

[Randal, Phil]

Bad idea!

Learning viruses as spam (and training Bayes with them) may well protect
you against new variants which are sufficiently similar to their
predecessors but not enough to be caught by your antivirus program.

What you propose is a false economy, IMHO.

Cheers,

Phil

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Phil Randal
Networks Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK

-----Original Message-----
From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
[mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of James
Gray
Sent: 05 June 2008 23:08
To: MailScanner Discussion List
Subject: Viruses flagged as spam too

Hi All,

I've had a dig through the archives, but didn't turn up anything
definitive (maybe I need more coffee?).  However, I'll ask the question
anyway: is there any way to prevent messages detected as viruses from
also being scanned for spam?  Given that SpamAssassin is the biggest
bottle-neck in the process, it seems pointless to scan messages that (in
my set-up) are never delivered.

I see a big, nasty fly in the ointment though; MailScanner's batch
processing paradigm.  How can we rip individual messages out of a batch,
once the batch has started processing??

Any takers?

Cheers,

James