[aclug-L] Re: WeatherLab virus

["Dale W Hodge" <dwh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> From: discussion-bounce@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:discussion-bounce@xxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Jonathan Hall

> 1) SpamAssassin and Norton A/V aren't even capable of runing on the same
> system, as they don't run on the same OS.
>
> 2) You can use SpamAssassin with Clam A/V (or other commercial AV software
> that works with *nix), thus avoiding the need for Norton all together.

I'll second the vote for SpamAssassin. It can take a bit of tweaking to get the
exclusion rules right, but overall it cuts down with the unwanted spam I have to
deal with daily.

> I have a few people paying me to do spam filtering for them.  (I grab theri
> mail via POP3, filter it, then they fetch it from me via POP3)  If you're
> interested in such a service, I could do it for you, too.  But you are a
> geek (at least geeky enough to be on this list), so there's no reason you
> shouldn't be able to do it yourself :)

That's a cool idea I hadn't thought of! And you are right, it's a simple thing
to implement under Linux.

--dwh

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