On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 22:05 +0100, Juan L. Pastor wrote: > Hi, > > According to the changes file, it seems that the MICROSOFT_EXECUTABLE > rule has been removed in spamassassin 3.0. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > r6504 | felicity | 2004-02-05 04:08:59 +0000 (Thu, 05 Feb 2004) | 1 line > > remove MICROSOFT_EXECUTABLE > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > This rule detected 99.9% of spam delivered to my account. Has it been > replaced by another rule? No. More information is available here: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/MarkingAllWindowsExecutables The bottom line is that the change was made based upon the notion that such attachments are likely to be viruses/worms, which are best filtered by an anti-virus program (ie. clamav) and not an anti-spam program. HTH, Marc Schwartz
