On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Michael Shields wrote:

> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Daniel Pittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Low-hanging fruit, though it's out of date these days, catch
> >> the snowhite virus since it's there:
> >>
> >> header SNOWWHITE_VIRUS         Subject =~ /Snowwhite.*REAL story/
> >> describe SNOWWHITE_VIRUS       The snow white virus
> >> score SNOWWHITE_VIRUS   10
> >
> > Don't you have a virus scanner?
>
> If you use a secure mailer, than viruses are not a threat, nothing but
> more junk.  I don't see any reason not to consider them spam.

They are junk, but not UCE.

How would you, for example, propose to catch a polymorphic executable
virus? Our code catches these using a disassembler and examining the code
to see if it tries to do something malicious. This is not the realm of
SpamAssassin.

-- 
Matt.
<:->get a SMart net</:->


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