[Spambayes] SpamBayes 1.1a4 on Windows XP (correction)

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    Kyle> I also discovered today that the proxied messages are being stored
    Kyle> in the directory:

    Kyle> C:\Documents and Settings\NetworkService\Application 
    Kyle> Data\SpamBayes\Proxy\pop3proxy-spam-cache

    Kyle> I found these when AVG performed its scan of the system and found
    Kyle> quite a few trojans hiding in this directory.  So it would appear
    Kyle> as though the training begins to occur with messages being cached,
    Kyle> but the database isn't being written to perhaps?

    Kyle> Can anyone shed light on this situation?

Mail comes into the system and the pop3proxy caches them for your later
consideration when training.  SpamBayes doesn't execute any of this code and
no other programs in your system should access them.  Still, if this is an
issue for you, you should be running some sort of virus scanner on the front
end which scrubs viruses from email attachments before any other tool (like
Outlook, Thunderbird or SpamBayes) sees the message.

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