http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3299
------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-04-25 09:42 ------- Subject: Re: check zip attachments for MS executables On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 06:11:06PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > .scr attachments are microsoft executables and therefore, according to > spamassassin's rulebase, have a good chance of being spam (the > MICROSOFT_EXECUTABLE rule). Think of MS exectables as a special type of No, MICROSOFT_EXECUTABLE never detected spam. Virus/Worm emails != spam. > Bayesian keyword. Anyway, if Spamassassin thinks that MS executables aren't > spam, then the MICROSOFT_EXECUTABLE rule should be eliminated. Since lots of > people would probably get upset if that happened, it follows that having it > stay > and keep working is good, and having it work more thoroughly is even better. Since MICROSOFT_EXECUTABLE is gone in 3.0 anyway, this discussion is pretty moot. But just for your edification, the rule was put in for people who wanted SA to do some form of "virus/worm" catching, so we added a rule to look for the first couple of bytes in an executable to help those folks out. ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee.
