[Spambayes] RE: Spambayes is a Virus Scanner and a Virus ScannerScanner!

[Coe, Bob]

Do any of the commercial virus scanners incorporate Bayesian filtering?

Bob


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Derrick 'dman' Hudson [mailto:dman at dman13.dyndns.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 12:02 PM
> To: spambayes at python.org
> Subject: [Spambayes] Spambayes is a Virus Scanner and a Virus
> ScannerScanner!
> 
> 
> Did you expect that Spambayes is also a Virus Scanner and a Virus
> Scanner Scanner?
> 
> Within the last several minutes, I received several copies of some
> Windows email worm ...
> 
> I told spambayes the messages were spam, and following that the next
> "wave" of alerts hit the spam box instead.  Neither McAfee nor Norton
> can compete with spambayes' speed in discovering new viruses :-).
> 
> This is much better than trying to devise a proper (regex) pattern for
> the MTA/LDA to block or drop the virus notices (which are actually
> much more annoying that the worm itself).