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Re: antivirus s/w


From: William Warren <hescomingsoon () verizon net>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 15:48:10 -0500

sure they can be trained..but why use them in the first place they are clogging up servers worse than the virus is..i have gotten about 25 copies of novarg and double that in false bounces.


Steve Wray wrote:

Randal L. Schwartz
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PLEASE MAKE SURE that it doesn't send email responses.

I'm getting 500 mydoom an hour.  I can filter those.
I'm getting 1500 AV-responses an hour.  I can't filter those.

Hmmmm surely these AV responses could be trained into spam filters?

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Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. -

Ok, well I guess that stonehenge is a kind of computer!
;)


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