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Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:35:24 -0500
From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
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Subject: Re: Antivirus for (mailservers on) FreeBSD
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How does "antivirus mail filtering" differ significantly from spam
filtering?  Seems to me these two should be one and the same as "spam"
is a form of malicious code.

Teach a spam filter what the virus looks like and kill two birds with
the same stone.

All that seems to be lacking is easy updates to the spam/virus/worm rule
database.

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net
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