From: Erik Soderquist <ErikSoderquist@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: malware
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2016 17:19:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACoZoo06Ry_Ng=qWbcNzvwXON6L-O2wrQOqyYxf1YxtQjK7Fhw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160609161421.GA15058@calimero.vinschen.de>
On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 12:14 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jun 9 18:02, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>> On 09/06/2016 17:52, Jack Adrian Zappa wrote:
>> > Are you referring to the 83.dotm file? Looks highly suspicious. o.O
>> >
>>
>> It is clearly spam or worse.
>>
>> But some of them will always pass whatever filter the cygwin mail
>> server is implementing.
>> Some of them are reaching any mailbox also company's one.
>
> I can only agree with Marco. Sourceware is running an aggressive spam
> assassin and what not which gets constantly upgraded and fed with known
> spam regularly to hone the filters. However, there's *no* way it will
> always catch all spam or virus or worm. If so, it would probably also
> catch lots of legit mails.
If ever anyone develops a "perfect" filter, someone else will develop
a way to get past it, and it will no longer be "perfect"... a
continuous cat & mouse game that will continue until the profit from
spam/virus/worm infiltration is permanently ended or the universe
implodes on itself... and I'm not sure the second scenario would
actually end it...
-- Erik
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-09 17:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-09 15:08 malware Nellis, Kenneth
2016-06-09 15:49 ` malware Marco Atzeri
[not found] ` <CAKepmajx8LtDyYun-++CPaSuUMZsEQMKe=P2=JSgZwv36HvmOg@mail.gmail.com>
2016-06-09 15:52 ` malware Jack Adrian Zappa
2016-06-09 16:02 ` malware Marco Atzeri
2016-06-09 16:14 ` malware Corinna Vinschen
2016-06-09 17:19 ` Erik Soderquist [this message]
2016-06-09 17:49 ` malware David Stacey
2016-06-10 4:18 ` malware Mike Fahlbusch
2016-06-10 1:20 ` malware Andrey Repin
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