From: Daniel Pittman
Date: 09:15 on 18 Sep 2007
Subject: Sagator, the worst anti-spam software in the world...
You have to love standard test messages for spam and virus content.
They are so useful for testing your anti-virus filtering for email
stuff.
Like sagator. Our friend sagator. The best software in the world.
Sagator has a command line scanning tool, which is nice. I can use that
to scan some stuff as it passes through an annoying bit of commercial
software that is rather inflexible.
So, we test it:
[root@server1 tmp]# sgscan --quiet both.test
Total infected/spams files/emails: 0/1 in: 1.00 seconds
Well. That is odd. I know the tests are in there. Shall we see why it
thinks that wasn't infect, eh?
[root@server1 tmp]# sgscan --verbose both.test
both.test: SPAM [SpamAssassinD(),200.08]
Total infected/spams files/emails: 1/1 in: 0.00 seconds
Ah, excellent. Sagator was just doing what I asked. I asked politely
that it was quiet and didn't both me ... so it didn't. It didn't bother
me about anything.
Especially not having detected a virus or a spam. That would be noisy
and annoying, so it politely didn't tell me anything.
Thanks, sagator.
Daniel
From: Peter da Silva Date: 15:15 on 18 Sep 2007 Subject: Re: Sagator, the worst anti-spam software in the world... > Especially not having detected a virus or a spam. That would be noisy > and annoying, so it politely didn't tell me anything. I particularly like how it still printed a status line, even though one would have expected that's precisely what --quiet would suppress.
From: Daniel Pittman
Date: 04:43 on 19 Sep 2007
Subject: Re: Sagator, the worst anti-spam software in the world...
Peter da Silva <peter@xxxxxxx.xxx> writes:
>> Especially not having detected a virus or a spam. That would be
>> noisy and annoying, so it politely didn't tell me anything.
>
> I particularly like how it still printed a status line, even though
> one would have expected that's precisely what --quiet would suppress.
I didn't mention the most bile inducing part of the tool. It returns 0
no matter what it discovers. The only way to tell if that tool found a
virus or spam in your messages is to grep on the output.
Yes, this is quality software that I will /so/ be supporting into the
future, oh yes.
Daniel
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