From: Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
Date: 2003-09-20T00:02:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Viruses

Peter <Peter.Vanbroekhoven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be> skrev den Fri, 19 Sep 2003 23:48:53 +0900:

> Well, I wasn't used to getting about 81 overnight... Anyway, I apologize
> for my original email since apparently the worm also looks for email
> addresses on newsservers, so anyone who has the address of a newsgroup
> stored on his pc is potentially a vector. This was not mentioned on the
> mcafee page, if I knew that I wouldn't have sent that email... I still
> figure my recent posts caused the problems, but I guess none of you can
> help that :-(
>
> Sorry, such a sudden s***load of viruses made me panic... Not for getting
> infected (linux box), but for going down that same road as everyone. Been
> pretty spam and virus free before, at least on this email address.
>
I can recommend popfile which has solved my spam problem almost totally.
It has a 99.35% classification rate when classifying incoming messages
in 15 different categories. Its a bit of a mem hog though but on a modern
day computer its not much of an issue.

Regards,

Robert Feldt