[Ti] [OT] Mail.app spam definitions

[Pedro Vera]

Why not make your own filter for the specific attachments that Sobig uses?

I got so frustrated at the office that I had to install spambouncer in our mail server. Now we 
don't even see these Sobig messages. My problem now is my users are too important to read 
the emails where I explain to them how white lists work. I get more emails whining about the 
spam filter tagging mail wrong than what I was getting from real virus traffic.

Thanks,

Pedro Vera
http://pedrovera.com
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---------- Original Message -----------
From: Joel Hopwood <hopwood at zhian.com>
To: "PowerBook G4 Titanium List" <Titanium at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
Sent: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 07:53:51 +0100
Subject: [Ti] Mail.app spam definitions

> OK, so I'm *still* receiving 40-50 sobig virus emails A DAY.... 
> thanks to the Windows world. I don't mind receiving the infected 
> mail, since it can't hurt me and goes straight into the Junk folder, 
> but when is Mail going to twig that these are all junk?
> 
> How do the spam filters on Mail get updated?
> 
> Recently I have been receiving a lot of spam with completely random 
> titles like "Good to see you" or whatever. They are all about 
> Generic Viagra - you'd think Mail would have picked up on the fact 
> that any Mail that contains say HTML coding and the words generic 
> viagra is spam... but no.
> 
> Does anybody know when Mail updates its filters?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Joel
> 
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