dealing with email from "Mydoom" worm

Chris Wilkes cwilkes-bf at ladro.com
Tue Jan 27 21:27:10 CET 2004


On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 01:46:16PM -0600, Fred Yankowski wrote:
> 
> But something feels wrong about using bogofilter to process
> worm-generated email as akin to spam.  I'm concerned that the "Mydoom"
> triggered messages are a bit too close to real non-spam messages for
> comfort.  (On the other hand, I get so many bounce messages as a
> result of spammer's forging "from" headers with my domain names, that
> I'm mostly ignoring such messages anyway.)

I use ClamAV to catch these:
  http://www.clamav.net/
before it gets to bogofilter.  Getting 5+ a minute, rather annoying.

Chris




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