malware
Mike Fahlbusch
mcf@cobweb.com.au
Fri Jun 10 04:18:00 GMT 2016
Hi Cygwinners,
On 10/06/2016 3:19 AM, David Stacey wrote:
> On 09/06/16 17:14, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Jun 9 18:02, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>>> On 09/06/2016 17:52, Jack Adrian Zappa wrote:
>>>> Are you referring to the 83.dotm file? Looks highly suspicious. o.O
>>>>
>>> It is clearly spam or worse.
>>>
>>> But some of them will always pass whatever filter the cygwin mail
>>> server is implementing.
>>> Some of them are reaching any mailbox also company's one.
>> I can only agree with Marco. Sourceware is running an agressive spam
>> assassin and what not which gets constantly upgraded and fed with known
>> spam regulary to hone the filters. However, there's*no* way it will
>> always catch all spam or virus or worm. If so, it would probably also
>> catch lots of legit mails.
>
>
> In fairness to the Sourceware mail filter, VirusTotal isn't decided on
> whether the file is malevolent or not [1]. At present, all of the major
> commercial AV tools pass it as clean. If it turns out to be something
> unpleasant then we should request the postmaster delete the mail from
> the archives.
The more people click on the Junk button, the better!
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Regards,
Mike
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