Milt Epstein wrote:
> Anyway, I wanted to see if I could get help dealing with one repeating
> annoying spam message. Actually, I think the message is coming from a virus
> (i.e. machines that have been infected with the virus), but it seems the
> message can be dealt with as if it were spam. I'm
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Steve Thomas wrote:
[ ... ]
> | Thanks for any help/suggestions you can offer.
>
> You *could* use procmail or even create a rule in SA to filter
> these, but you really should be using some sort of virus scanner and
> blocking the messages before delivery. SA is just a tool i
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custom rules in SA like mad!
Best to make the distinction bewteen virus and spam. And choose the best
tool for the job.
-Original Message-
From: Bob Apthorpe [mailto:apthorpe+sa@;cynistar.net]
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 2:07 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SAtalk] help wit
Hi,
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Sidney Markowitz wrote:
> Milt Epstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > there are different definitions of
> > what spam is, and I'm sure it fits some of them.
> [...]
> > appears to the person receiving the mail, it looks like spam and can
> > be dealt with as if it were
| Both contain "goldfish" in the subject, one is just plain "goldfish"
| and one is "Fw: goldfish".
|
| Both have attachments, one is application/octet-stream, one is
| audio/x-midi.
|
| Both say:
|
| Hi Dear
| Check the attach
| See u
It's a virus:
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w
Sidney Markowitz said the following on 22/10/02 17:43:
Milt Epstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
there are different definitions of
what spam is, and I'm sure it fits some of them.
[...]
appears to the person receiving the mail, it looks like spam and can
be dealt with as if it were spam. It
Milt Epstein said the following on 22/10/02 16:54:
Anyway, if you're talking about theoretical/technical distinctions,
perhaps it is virus-related. But there are different definitions of
what spam is, and I'm sure it fits some of them.
I didn't really want to get into a discussion of whether it
They say, "when all you have is spamassassin, everything looks like a spam."
Well, maybe they don't, but they should. (grin)
I'd add something to your /etc/procmailrc file for this; perhaps some unique
line from the attachment, and route it to dev/null. Because the document
isn't random.
You
Milt Epstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> there are different definitions of
> what spam is, and I'm sure it fits some of them.
[...]
> appears to the person receiving the mail, it looks like spam and can
> be dealt with as if it were spam. It doesn't really matter how it
> originated.
Actually
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Frank Pineau wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 10:18:38 -0500 (CDT), you wrote:
>
> >Both contain "goldfish" in the subject, one is just plain "goldfish"
> >and one is "Fw: goldfish".
> >
> >Both come from hotmail addresses.
> >
> >Both have attachments, one is application/octet-st
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 10:18:38 -0500 (CDT), you wrote:
>Both contain "goldfish" in the subject, one is just plain "goldfish"
>and one is "Fw: goldfish".
>
>Both come from hotmail addresses.
>
>Both have attachments, one is application/octet-stream, one is
>audio/x-midi.
>
>Both say:
>
> Hi Dear
>
Hi. Just joined up the list. I started using SpamAssassin about a
week ago. Seems to be working well, but still a few false positives
and false negatives (more of the latter).
Anyway, I wanted to see if I could get help dealing with one repeating
annoying spam message. Actually, I think the m
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