Spam should be filtered now

Brooks Davis brooks at one-eyed-alien.net
Thu May 27 09:58:30 PDT 2004


On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 06:41:52PM +0200, Sascha Wildner wrote:
> Matthew Dillon wrote:
> 
> >    Boy, that's annoying.
> >
> >    I've put a body filter on the spam and locked out the IP address.
> 
> Great! :)
> 
> Question: Matt, are you sure that your Anti-Virus is up to date?
> 
> <9494566142d590.b1408.qmail at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> has a Sober.G 
> attached but Anti-Virus on crater states:
> 
> +-+-+ Anti-Virus: No Virus
> +-+-+ CRATER.DRAGONFLYBSD- AntiVirus Service
> +-+-+ http://www.crater.dragonflybsd.org
> 
> Unless this message is part of the worm to make it look more harmless, 
> that is.

That's the worm talking.  I've never seen a piece of AV software add
text that way.  You see a few that tack junk onto the end from some
corporate gateways (they usually make claims no sane person who knew
anything about information theory would make).

-- Brooks

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