Re: Klez.H worm preserved in Debian BTS
IMO, SpamAssassin is no replacement for anti-virus scanning software.
http://spamassassin.org/faq.html
> Does SpamAssassin filter email-borne viruses as well as spam?
>
> No. SpamAssassin is focussed on identifying spam, and not viruses.
> The mechanism of scanning for viruses is different, and software
> tailored for virus scanning is much much better at this task. It is
> possible that in future versions that SA will include hooks to call
> out to external virus scanners, but SA itself is unlikely to attempt
> such functionality itself.
I did try a cursory search of debian-devel and debian-debbugs for
relevant posts, but I'm afraid I didn't try very many combinations of
keywords. The search function doesn't seem to have indexed the most
recent posts. Next time, I'll try looking through debian-devel-announce
first.
http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/searchlists?query=spamassassin&lists=devel-announce
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2002/debian-devel-announce-200210/msg00010.html
Finally, I haven't been paying attention so much as I am not subscribed
to debian-devel[-announce] and don't read these lists regularly. I will
go subscribe to debian-devel-announce now.
Thanks for implementing SpamAssassin on lists.d.o, though. I'm sure that
was not an easy task, and it will be a big improvement.
Dave
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 02:14:49PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, David D. Kilzer wrote:
>
> > While looking at Bug #148792, I found that a couple copies of the Klez.H
> > worm had been preserved in the Debian BTS.
> >
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=148792&repeatmerged=yes
> >
> > Should these be removed from that bug?
>
> It seems you missed my mail to debian-devel-announce, which say that
> spamassassin is used to filter bts mail, and that any old bugs that had spam
> should have their numbers mailed to owner@bugs, so that they can be cleaned.
>
> > It might also be advisable to incorporate some email anti-virus scanning
> > software on the mail exchangers (MX) for debian.org (or for a subset of
> > the Debian mailing lists) since amavis-exim and clamscan are now
> > available in testing/unstable (assuming the mail exchangers could handle
> > the additional load).
>
> Again, you haven't been paying attention.
>
> lists.d.o runs mails from non-subscribers thru spamassassin already.
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