On Thu, 24 Oct 2019 23:22:59 +0200, Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop
<mailop@mailop.org> wrote:
>Dnia 24.10.2019 o godz. 15:11:23 Kelly Molloy via mailop pisze:
>>
>> Yes, it certainly can be. If an email causes a user to install
>> ransomware on a corporate network, then it is an enormous and
>> expensive problem; it's put companies out of business. If a phishing
>> message means that an company gets infected with malware, the
>> remediation is hugely expensive.
>
>Protecting against malware is not a spam filter's job...
You may have failed to notice Kelly's wording: "causes a user to install".
No anti-malware facility yet devised would have protected my Brazilian client
from one particular attack, because there was absolutely no indication of any
sort that a compromise was intended by a particular message, which looked for
all the world like the stuff the finance department received every day. Some
rather nerdy and introspective anti-spam rules nabbed it.
mdr
--
The world was almost won by such an ape!
The nations put him where his kind belong.
But do not rejoice too soon at your escape.
The womb he crawled from is still going strong.
-- Bertold Brecht,"The Resistible Rise of Arturo UI"
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