Re: [Asrg] 6. Email Path Verification (hashcash benchmarks)

[Jonathan Morton <chromi@chromatix.demon.co.uk>]

> During one of the latest e-mail viruses, one of my clients started 
> labeling all of the reproductive messages as spam.  Within a few 
> training sessions, the virus problem went away because it was all 
> placed in the dumpster.  Personally, I never would have thought of 
> doing that but I have a clever client.
I did the same with SpamAssassin when Sobig.F started hitting me with 
hundreds per day (bounces and infections alike).  I manually set the 
MICROSOFT_EXECUTABLE score to 10.0 (the default score is only 0.3) and 
set up Procmail to dump messages above 8.0.  I'm pretty sure that dealt 
with over 99% of the problem.

I personally think that nearly all ISPs, especially those with a large 
proportion of newbies, should delete directly-executable attachments 
without question.

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from:     Jonathan "Chromatix" Morton
mail:     chromi@chromatix.demon.co.uk
website:  http://www.chromatix.uklinux.net/
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