At Wed, 26 Oct 2016 13:43:31 +0200, Tomas Pospisek wrote: > I've recently received "Dear Customer" spam on a bug of mine. I've > searched the BTS [1], and there are many, many, many of these spam > postings in the BTS, see f.ex. [2]. > > I think it doesn't make sense to press "this bug log contains spam" on > each of those pages. Better would be to go directly to the archive and > delete such posts directly from there. > > I know I have once tried to do that - I think with a bit of advice from > Don Armstrong but it never went anywhere. > > Has anyone tried to do such a thing yet (methodically clean the bug > archive of spam)? Where and how could I start such an effort? How would > I get read/write access to the BTS archive?
Spam e-mails like these that contain a zip with a windows executable can easily be blocked based on file extension using the foxhole rules for clamav (http://sanesecurity.com/foxhole-databases/). And clamav can probably also be used to automatically clean the bug archive of such messages. Kind regards, Jeroen Dekkers