Need help with rule set

Jules Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Jul 29 19:47:27 IST 2009



On 29/07/2009 19:22, Jules Field wrote:
>
>
> On 29/07/2009 19:03, Mark Nienberg wrote:
>> Mark Sapiro wrote:
>>>
>>> The underlying issue is that with SaneSecurity ClamAV signatures, lots
>>> of spam gets processed as a virus and thus gets a virus notice rather
>>> than a spam or high spam action, and this postmaster address gets a
>>> lot of spam, the notices for which drown out the others.
>>>
>> I agree this is a nuisance.  I deal with it by filtering mail with 
>> subject "Virus Detected" into a separate folder at the local mail 
>> delivery agent level.  True, the folder will receive real virus 
>> notifications as well as SaneSecurity detections, but that doesn't 
>> bother me too much.  A cronjob cleans items older than 10 days out of 
>> the folder so it doesn't grow too large.  If I haven't read it by 
>> then it probably isn't important.
> Have you got any ideas for me to avoid this problem or work around it? 
> I could look for sub-strings in the virus report and do something 
> appropriate, but what?
Can someone send me the URL of a test message that is caught by ClamAV 
by the Sanesecurity phishing signatures? I trap such stuff at SMTP time 
myself so haven't got any examples :-(
Need some test data!

Many thanks,

Jules

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