On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 10:37:12AM -0500, Kevin A. McGrail wrote:
> On 11/14/2013 8:57 AM, David F. Skoll wrote:
> >Some statistics: On our main scanning cluster on 2013-11-13, we
> >blocked 176,668 messages with EXE files in zip files. ClamAV only
> >detected 4,610 viruses. Regards, David.
> Continuing that vein, statistically, in the past 60 days, on one
> server we blocked 60061 attachments using MIMEDefang.  We had
> PERHAPS 5 or 6 requests to get the quarantined files.  Out of those
> requests at least 50% were requests for 0-day malware.
> 
> Can't recommend enough that MD is a great product to mix into an
> anti-spam ecosytem though we also use McAfee, ClamAV and Symantec
> products as well in the mix with minimal false positives so they are
> very useful to hammer things definitively but things definitely get
> by them.

Funny that the thread is mostly anything other than SA.. ;-)

I guess I have to create a "Zipinfo" plugin for SA, had that in mind for a
while..

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