On 9 Aug 2012, at 19:23, Henrik K <h...@hege.li> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 02:07:22PM -0400, Alex wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>>>> # sigtool --find-sigs MBL_303159 | sigtool --decode-sigs
>>>> Does anyone know what's going on with this domain? It doesn't look
>>>> like a domain thousands of my users would be including in their email
>>>> on Aug 7th, so I don't know whether the emails were really spam...
>>> 
>>> Hi Alex,
>>> 
>>> The problem I think was that the sig was bad and it matching anything
>>> "www."  hence the huge number of FP's....
>> 
>> I thought the signatures were fixed? In other words, simple pattern
>> matching for a fixed string.
>> 
>> I didn't realize it was dynamic and could match an expression, or am I
>> missing something?
> 
> MBL's signature download (http) is unreliable and sometimes gives out
> incomplete files.  Obviously if the file cuts out in the middle of signature
> this can happen.
> 

Sorry off subject, but...

Really? Surely no engine would allow incomplete signatures to load and be used?

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