At 06:51 AM 1/10/2006, Jan Pieter Cornet wrote:
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 12:37:02PM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> Anyway, amavisd-new lists a dozen or so examples:
>
> # Treat envelope sender address as unreliable and don't send sender > # notification / bounces if name(s) of detected virus(es) match the list. > # Note that virus names are supplied by external virus scanner(s) and are
> # not standardized, so virus names may need to be adjusted.
> # See README.lookups for syntax.
> #
> $viruses_that_fake_sender_re = new_RE(
> qr'nimda|hybris|klez|bugbear|yaha|braid|sobig|fizzer|palyh|peido|holar'i,
>   qr'tanatos|lentin|bridex|mimail|trojan\.dropper'i,
> );

This list is pretty much incomplete (at least sober, somefool and mydoom are missing, to name a few). And having this makes you follow the latest virus definitions scanning for possible new virus strands that fake their
sender.

I believe it's way easier to do the opposite: list only viruses that do NOT fake the sender. The only ones you'd expect to find in email are
things like eicar, joke and macro viruses.

For the last couple years amavisd-new assumes the sender is fake but for a few exceptions by default. The above list is from a much older version which required manual updating.

--
Noel Jones
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