Re: [Emerging-Sigs] Reliability of signatures

[Michael Scheidell <michael.scheidell () secnap com>]

On 2/10/11 8:30 AM, Michael Stone wrote:
> Well, even that distincion isn't so clear. Does "what it's supposed to
> be looking for" mean "the string the signature was written against" or
> "the malware the signature was written against"?
if someone is scanning my LAMP network for IIS6 holes, are those FP's?
btw, when on the icsa labs anti-spam initial steering group, all the 
vendors argues about was a SPAM and HAM was.
that was the largest, longest and noisiest and most contentious issue.

what is a spam?
a) from email admin perspective:
b) from user perspective.

from a user, its 'something I didn't want, even if I signed up for it'

ham? something I wanted, even if I didn't sign up for it.

needed to come to an agreement, since part of the icsa labs 
certification was > 95% spam capture, and less then 1 in 100,000 FP's.

so, if brother in law on aol gets a joke fwd to him, that has been 
around 100 times, and sends it to user, and the (business tuned) 
anti-spam engine blocks it, is that a FP?




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