Text 56762, 59 rader
Skriven 2009-09-12 11:29:46 av Ross Cassell (1:123/456)
  Kommentar till text 56761 av Alan Zisman (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: No pox  !
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Hello Alan!

12 Sep 09 11:28, you wrote to me:

 RC>> These are just some of the horror stories..

 AZ> Viruses and spyware- while still around- are much less in evidence
 AZ> these days... increasingly, infections are less obvious, as malware is
 AZ> wanting to plug users into botnets as spam servers rather than (for
 AZ> example) popping up ads for spam sites.

All for thr $$ they generate for the people.

Rogue Security Applications also are introduced this way..

 AZ> Very useful- Secunia's free (for home users only) PSI (Personal
 AZ> Software Inspector):
 AZ> http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/

 AZ> It scans everything installed on a computer, reports on out of date
 AZ> and vulnerable versions, and includes download links to current
 AZ> versions.

I use PSI here as well..

As arrogant as this sounds, no computer I have ever run, has ever been infected
by an active running piece of malware.. I have had malware land on the systems
via email, but my spam classifier (popfile) had already classed as spam and my
filters moved them to a folder that I only look at to look for false positives.

Popfile also takes anything it thinks to be spam and encodes the entire message
body as a attachment, therefore looking at the message does nothing.

The next virus scan and the threat got eliminated.

Popfile works as an email proxy, I have it running on one of my lixux boxes, I
then tell email client that the mailserver address is the IP of the linux box I
have popfile on, using port 1100. In the username field:

emailserver.com:username

password as usual..

Then popfile simply tags the message header appropriately that I have a filter
react to. It has a WEB ui, so that I can use to view its accuracy or to train
it, should it do the false neg/pos thing.

Right now it is hitting on 98.28% accuracy.

It takes a while to build up its accuracy.

==
Ross
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