Re: Using spam tools for viruses

2005-10-25 Thread Nix
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] whispered secretively: > I'm not sure what the SA folks think about this now a days. A while > back, they removed the checks for MS executables as being spam > indicators even though the test actually is a very good indicator of > spam. That's because it did

Re: Using spam tools for viruses

2005-10-24 Thread Alan Premselaar
Thomas Cameron wrote: > Howdy - > > I recently responded to a thread on a local LUG mailing list where a guy > wanted to report a virus as spam. I have always thought that using a > spam tool to fight viruses was wrong, and I said so. He asked why, and > basically my response was "use the right

Re: Using spam tools for viruses

2005-10-24 Thread wayne
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thomas Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I recently responded to a thread on a local LUG mailing list where a guy > wanted to report a virus as spam. [...] > > What is the "conventional wisdom" on this list? Should viruses be > reported as spam? If so, why? If not, w

Re: Using spam tools for viruses

2005-10-24 Thread JamesDR
Thomas Cameron wrote: Howdy - I recently responded to a thread on a local LUG mailing list where a guy wanted to report a virus as spam. I have always thought that using a spam tool to fight viruses was wrong, and I said so. He asked why, and basically my response was "use the right tool for t

Using spam tools for viruses

2005-10-24 Thread Thomas Cameron
Howdy - I recently responded to a thread on a local LUG mailing list where a guy wanted to report a virus as spam. I have always thought that using a spam tool to fight viruses was wrong, and I said so. He asked why, and basically my response was "use the right tool for the job," as in use a vir