Re: Whence the spam/virus filter?

[Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad at users dot sourceforge dot net>]

Dave Korn wrote:
> On 03 November 2006 15:36, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> > There have been no fewer than *seven* (no, wait... nine? ten?)
> > virus-laden messages slip on the list in the past 24 hours. Am I
> > mis-remembering that we have spam (and /virus/) filters, or are they
> > letting things through?
> >
> > I guess mostly I'm checking that someone is working on it, as the rate
> > of arrival is starting to get ridiculous.
>
>   I dropped a note to overseers but I imagine it's the us-uk time zone
> difference that's meant nobody's seen to it yet.
>
>   Well, that plus wanting to be very very careful when adjusting the spam
> filters on a machine as busy as sourceware.org!

True, but why aren't the *virus* scanners catching this? Or, "why do we 
not block all attachments of the form '.+<some image format>.+exe'? :-)

Arguably we should just bounce (with explanation) any .exe; that isn't 
unusual, and a real user can always drop it in a .zip/.tar.gz/etc (in 
the odd cases that sourceware.org are legitimately posting *Windows* 
executables).

Anyway between your note to sourceware and me posting here, I'll feel 
better that *someone* eventually will do something. Thanks.

--
Matthew
"I don't question your existence -- God" (seen on a church billboard)