On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 12:14 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jun 9 18:02, Marco Atzeri wrote: >> On 09/06/2016 17:52, Jack Adrian Zappa wrote: >> > Are you referring to the 83.dotm file? Looks highly suspicious. o.O >> > >> >> It is clearly spam or worse. >> >> But some of them will always pass whatever filter the cygwin mail >> server is implementing. >> Some of them are reaching any mailbox also company's one. > > I can only agree with Marco. Sourceware is running an aggressive spam > assassin and what not which gets constantly upgraded and fed with known > spam regularly to hone the filters. However, there's *no* way it will > always catch all spam or virus or worm. If so, it would probably also > catch lots of legit mails.
If ever anyone develops a "perfect" filter, someone else will develop a way to get past it, and it will no longer be "perfect"... a continuous cat & mouse game that will continue until the profit from spam/virus/worm infiltration is permanently ended or the universe implodes on itself... and I'm not sure the second scenario would actually end it... -- Erik -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
