[ofa-general] Re: FW: [ewg] SPAM emails

[Jeff Becker]

I did see it, and have also been unhappy about the recent increase in 
spam. We do run spamassassin and amavis (for virus checking) on the 
server. However, configuring these is an ongoing project, as the 
attackers figure out how to get around whatever rules we do have. It's 
also somewhat hit and miss, e.g., sometimes, I'll clamp down the rules 
and then perfectly valid and important posts get blocked. I'm happy to 
look at this again, but it might be useful to inquire at John Companies 
if they can supply a hardware firewall such as Barracuda. I think that's 
what NASA uses, as I see these spams in my quarantine daily.

-jeff

Ryan, Jim wrote:
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> Not sure you would have seen this. The amount of spam has increased 
> dramatically. I wasn’t aware of viruses, but will trust HB’s judgment 
> on that. I know I get called on frequently to block email that’s spam. 
> I get several such requests per day
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> Thanks, Jim
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> *From:* ewg-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org 
> [mailto:ewg-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org] *On Behalf Of *Head Bubba
> *Sent:* Thursday, April 24, 2008 10:37 AM
> *To:* ewg at lists.openfabrics.org
> *Subject:* [ewg] SPAM emails
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> can we use a SPAM filter (two of the SPAMs, so far, had links to a 
> known virus that our internal email filtering caught, and 1 last week 
> was a virus that our internal email filtering also caught)- now that 
> virus are starting to be sent, can something be done before some one 
> puts in a legitimate subject line and sends a virus ?
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> h.b.
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