> You could easily be right too.  To be honest I didn't pick up that the
> original poster was referring to attachments (my fault, should read more
> carefully).  As far as I can tell razor only processes text, whereas DCC
> and pyzor aren't volunteering the information anywhere obvious.  I
> always assumed that they generated a checksum for the entire body, even
> if that is a multipart message - but that may well be incorrect.

I also can't speak for Razor 2 and Pyzor, but the MIMEDefang Mailing list
suggests that it does not process attachments. Therefore the suggestion...

> I think there are some problems with classifying non-text attachments in
> this way, since there might not necessarily be anything objectionable or
> harmful about the attachment, and some attachments could conceivably
> show up in genuine mail (for example gifs or jpgs of company logos).

That's not what I meant - I meant a specific Spam banner like we have been
seeing in more recent spams. But I hear what you are saying - whatever
goes into the DB as a "Spam banner" should pretty much be moderated. But
that seems to be how ClamAV's new virus submission works anyway ?




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