[freeciv-ai] Re: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: Re: (PR#8308) AutoReply: something for you

["Stepan Roh" <stepan@xxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8308 >



On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Stepan Roh wrote:

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> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8308 >
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> On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Jason Short wrote:
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> > <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8308 >
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> > Stepan Roh wrote:
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> > > That is not a spam, but worm. Bayesian filter won't help because there is
> > > almost no text in that mail (only subject and one sentence) - that can't
> > > be trained. The only solution is antivirus.
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> > Surely spamassassin looks at the attachment as well?  It may be binary
> > but it can still provide data to filter by...
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> Bayesian filter mail classification is based on probability of words in
> certain types of documents (in our case in spam and ham). Binary
> attachments can't be analysed this way.

Sorry, I replied not to the question you wrote :-) Spamassassin can be
used to filter such viruses (by detecting some forbidden content types
or attachment names), but it looks too hard (there must be a regular
expression against undecoded mail body), but I might be wrong (I did not
try that).

Have a nice day.

Stepan Roh