On Saturday 26 November 2005 18:47, John Thompson wrote: >On 2005-11-26, Chad Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 11/26/05, Fred A. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I DON'T use the address, but apparently addresses from this list >>> have been picked up and therefore most of us are getting SPAMMED >>> with this junk! 'Course, those of us who use Linux don't have to >>> worry about it. ;) >> >> Linux prevents SPAM? I use Linux. Tell me how that works. What's >> the bash command to prevent SPAM. > >He didn't say linux prevents spam, just that linux users don't have to >worry about the viruses that come with the spam. > >> I'm sure OpenOffice.org's mail servers use Linux - so why are they >> getting hit with a virus storm? > >It's a bandwidth issue. The high number of spurious messages makes it > more difficult to process the legitimate messages. > >> Linux doesn't solve all ills. Sorry to break the news to you. > >No, but thanks to spamassassin I haven't noticed any increase in the > spam that gets to my inbox (still only about half a dozen messages a > week), but a couple hundred messeges have been dumped since the log > file was last rotated (20 Nov.): > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] john]$ grep dev/null -c nfs/.procmail/procmail.log >217 > >Of those, almost 140 had some sort of virus attached: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] john]$ grep -i virus -c nfs/.procmail/procmail.log >138 > >This still isn't significantly different from the week before: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] john]$ zgrep dev/null -c nfs/.procmail/procmail.log.1.gz >240 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] john]$ zgrep -i virus -c nfs/.procmail/procmail.log.1.gz >156 > >So, at least here I can't claim to have seen much effect from the > latest MS mail exploit.
Lucky is what I'd call you. I just cleaned that many copies of something with a 73.3 kilobyte .zip viri payload out of my junquemail folder, and thats just since I cleaned it out, feeding the new stuff to sa-learn-spam at about 11 this morning local time, eg 10 hours ago. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.36% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
