[Mimedefang] Virus hoaxes

[Steffen Kaiser]

On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Matthew.van.Eerde at hbinc.com wrote:

> Kenneth Porter wrote:
>> I just received a virus hoax ("life is beautiful") forwarded from one
>> of my users, so I sent results of my google (including Snopes and
>> BreakTheChain) upstream to previous recipients.
>>
>> Now I'm wondering why Clam (configured in MD) doesn't treat hoaxes,
>> like phish, as just another virus. Is there some other system that's
>> targeted at stopping hoaxes?
>
> How about a system targeted at blathering christmas letters? ;)
>
> Hoaxes aren't really all that serious of a problem.

Well, those "Nigerian" money transfer stuff is subject of SpamAssassine; I 
would expect that for all hoaxes, too.

Bye,

-- 
Steffen Kaiser