[Mimedefang] Virus hoaxes
Steffen Kaiser
skmimedefang at smail.inf.fh-bonn-rhein-sieg.de
Fri Jan 20 03:54:45 EST 2006
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
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