[Spambayes] Anti -Virus

Keith Roos Keithroos at kretek.com
Tue Oct 28 12:24:17 EST 2003


Gentlemen,

 Viruses are triggered by  opening an e-mail to read it. That's why it is
standard practice to  set outlook not to  preview the inbox. 

Sure would be slick if your program could determine Spam with out opening
the e-mail and exposing the computer to viruses.

 
Thanks

Keith 




-----Original Message-----
From: Skip Montanaro [mailto:skip at pobox.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 7:57 AM
To: Dejonghe, Manuel
Cc: Keith Roos; spambayes at python.org
Subject: RE: [Spambayes] Anti -Virus 



    Manuel> Please, somebody of the developer team read my answer and
    Manuel> correct us, if I am wrong, as I am not totally sure of what I'm
    Manuel> telling here.

Manuel's explanation looks fine to me.  SpamBayes opens and reads the
contents of the message but never executes it, nor does it try to feed it to
another program which will interpret it.  Any buffer overflow problems would
have to be in the Python interpreter itself.  At the current time we are
unaware of any.

Skip



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