Florin
Depends on how well it's setup in the first place. The default ruleset are a pretty good starting point, but I find I need to add quite a few extra ones in from www.rulesemporium.com etc in order to get a reason catch rate.
the URI-RBL from surbl.org has help tremendously in providing a more automatic update system and the (my_)rules_du_jour from the SARE gang at rulesemporium.com helps with their rules.
From what I hear of the developers they have been discussing ways of providing an auto-update mechanism, but they are trying to lock it down from what I see, so you know the updates are from them and not spoofed.
-- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
Florin Andrei wrote:
I'm using SA since... well, a long time ago, and one thing that i noticed was a pattern in the way its efficiency varies: it's pretty good soon after a new release, then it gets continuously worse; then a new release and all of a sudden it's good again, then it starts "decaying" again...
Well, it's been a while since the last release, and it's already noticeably worse. I know this has been discussed before, i am aware of the VirusScannerTypeUpdates FAQ entry, but you know what, from an end- user's point of view, it does not matter. All that matters is that, despite brilliant technical discussions, the efficiency is going down and, if a new version is not released soon enough, the users start to complain. This is what's happening right now.
I guess something has to change. "Then change it yourself" type of advices will go straight to /dev/null, thank you, because as far as SA is concerned, i'm just a user. I am merely pointing out the problem.
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