Spamassassin 3.0: MICROSOFT_EXECUTABLE

Marc Schwartz MSchwartz at MedAnalytics.com
Mon Nov 22 00:43:04 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 22:05 +0100, Juan L. Pastor wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> According to the changes file, it seems that the MICROSOFT_EXECUTABLE
> rule has been removed in spamassassin 3.0.
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> r6504 | felicity | 2004-02-05 04:08:59 +0000 (Thu, 05 Feb 2004) | 1 line
> 
> remove MICROSOFT_EXECUTABLE
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> This rule detected 99.9% of spam delivered to my account. Has it been
> replaced by another rule?

No.

More information is available here:

http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/MarkingAllWindowsExecutables

The bottom line is that the change was made based upon the notion that
such attachments are likely to be viruses/worms, which are best filtered
by an anti-virus program (ie. clamav) and not an anti-spam program.

HTH,

Marc Schwartz





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