[qmtest] SPAM from this list.

[Ricardo Anguiano]

Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery.com> writes:

> Anders Hasselqvist <Anders.Hasselqvist at tss.teleca.se> writes:
>
>> I've been receiving SPAM addressed from this list beginning this
>> Monday.
>
> Are you sure those aren't email worms?  I've been getting an awful
> lot of those, some via this list.  They look superficially like spam
> but have very little body text, just a sentence or so and an
> attached zipfile (which contains the worm executable).
>
> I'm not sure what spam filters are in use on this list, but some kinds
> of spam filters are very bad at catching worms.

We were using bogofilter alone, which had a 8/157 (~5%) false negative
rate with the training data it had.  Three of the emails that got
through were malware.

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Ricardo Anguiano
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