RE: New Virus

From: Tom Linden (tom_at_kednos.com)
Date: 01/29/04 

Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 06:05:56 -0800

(Cross-posted)

Is anybody porting spambayes to VMS?

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  From: Tillman, Brian (AGRE) [mailto:Brian.Tillman@smiths-aerospace.com]
  Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 5:54 AM
  To: MX-Support@MadGoat.com
  Subject: RE: New Virus
  
  
  
  Geoff Roberts wrote:
  
> We desperately need to be able to filter based on message
> body content alone and/or combined with
> header info. We are also getting an increasing number of
> spams with random subject lines, or subject lines
> that mimic legit messages and bear no resemblance to the
> content. Even the content is getting scrambled, with non
> standard characters ie @ instead of a and numeral1 or ! instead of
> lower case L etc. AFAICT, MX can't operate on any of this part of the
> message as it's in the body, not headers.
  
  MX, then, is not the tool for you. My personal opinion is that adding
  additional anti-spam capability to MX is way beyond the scope of what
  the software is intended to do. There are other tools alrady available
  (InterScan from Trend Micro, MAILsweeper from ClearSwift, and
  PreciseMail from Process Software, to name three) that do what you
  require. There are even a couple of freeware ones (SpamBayes from
  http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/ to name one). Don't burden a tool
  which does its job well (deliver SMTP mail) with functions way beyond
  its design scope. Don't get me wrong. I think the anti-spam features
  of MX are very worth-while additions. Scanning the body, however, is
  more complex. It requires a full-fledged HTML interpreter sp that, in
  addition to scanning the text prior to interpretation, it can be scanned
  afterward as well, since so much junk mail h</null>as
  an</null>ti-s</null>pam tricks in it that render scanning the
  uninterpreted code insufficient.
  -- Brian Tillman Smiths Aerospace
  3290 Patterson Ave. SE, MS 1B3
  Grand Rapids, MI 49512-1991
  Brian.Tillman is the name, smiths-aerospace.com is the domain.
         I don't speak for Smiths, and Smiths doesn't speak for me.
  
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