[Declude.JunkMail] Downloading the last all_list.dat to freshen your COUNTRY tests

2013-04-18 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
You'll want to fetch this zipped version: https://www.declude.com/version/extras/IP/all_list.zip Inside is the all_list.dat dated April 7th, 2013. Make a backup copy of your existing all_list.dat, and then overwrite it with the all_list.dat inside that zip file download. Andrew.

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude stopped logging, high CPU usage, slow processing

2013-04-09 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
If you upgraded to Declude 4.11.09 to avoid the AVG licence issue, you’ll find that it was a bandaid, and that build’s usefulness also expired contemporaneously with David and Linda’s employee status, on January 31, 2013. C:\IMailstrings decludeproc.exe| grep LicBeg LicBeg, Ver=1.1,

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Whois Tests?

2013-03-28 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
What we really need is a test that would do a whois... and that would identify newly registered domains. Dave, I'm not sure what further you're after, as you specifically mentioned spameatingmonkeys.com and one of their tests seems to fit your bill exactly:

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] why have spam scores jumped?

2013-03-11 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
but got no response and couldn't find any other contact information. Anyone able to correct or illuminate me? Thanks, Ben - Original Message - From: Colbeck, Andrew mailto:acolb...@bentallkennedy.com To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com Sent: Wednesday

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] why have spam scores jumped?

2013-03-06 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Ben, check the archive website here http://www.mail-archive.com/declude.junkmail@declude.com/ for the mail you’ve missed. Andrew. From: SM Admin [mailto:imailad...@bcwebhost.net] Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2013 10:10 PM To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] why

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Android Yahoo Mail app spam

2012-07-06 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
I took a further look this morning, I have 116 samples from 113 unique IP addresses from Jun 30 through Jul 03 inclusive. These really are from Yahoo! and are digitally signed. The Message-ID really are unique as they should be, and they should be constructed by a Yahoo! server, possibly based

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Android Yahoo Mail app spam

2012-07-05 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
If you know the header contains an exact string on a single line: HEADERS 1 PCRE (?m:^Message-ID:blahblahblah) Set the score weight as you like. If you want to do a case-insensitive search, change ?m: to ?im: If the text inside the blahblahblah would match regexp reserved strings,

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] PCRE help

2011-11-16 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
I don't see anything wrong there, Scott. When I run it through The Regex Coach, I did have to remove the spaces at the end of the line in your email and then it did work. So, make sure there is no whitespace at the end of the line in your test file? Make sure the filter file really is running and

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Solid State Drives

2011-09-28 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Don, if it's the I/O speed of an SSD that catches your interest, and have RAM to spare (and some CPU), you could try a free virtual hard drive (up to 650 MB) from StarWind: http://www.starwindsoftware.com/high-performance-ram-disk-emulator This would be an easier experiment than installing an

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] AOL Header Test

2011-09-06 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Rick, you have a space between the colon and the YES and, if I remember correctly, AOL does not put a space there. #Email from AOL which they believe is spam HEADERS 0 CONTAINS X-SPAM-FLAG:YES On the other hand, there is a case-sensitive flavour that comes out of SpamAssassin, and AOL

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] error message in declude log

2011-08-17 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Look at the order of your lines. You have a duplicate pair of weight4 lines between your 7 and 8 pair. Andrew 8) -Original Message- From: IMail Admin [mailto:imailad...@bcwebhost.net] Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 4:56 PM To:

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] regular expressions and IS

2011-08-10 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Rich, PCRE searches against BODY can be very expensive, particularly when you do a .* expression, which will try to match very long strings. You can give your CPU a break by changing .* to a judicious text size restriction e.g. .{5,100} body 0 PCRE (?i:^http\:\/\/.{5,100}\.(html|htm|php)$)

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Blocking on no REV DNS?

2011-02-14 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
For what it's worth, I still test against REVDNS and it's never been worth a HOLD action all by itself. I score it at 25% of my HOLD weight threshold. Reverse DNS lookups can go through a lot of lookups; if their DNS is too slow and doesn't respond, you will inadvertently score against them

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Filter for this?

2011-02-14 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Dave, the target IP address is a really old spammer block according to SpamHaus: http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/sbl.lasso?query=SBL79159 http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/sbl.lasso?query=SBL79123 Do you have a URL scanner? It should have picked off this one sample. Besides the Zero Day component of

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Large amount of hotmail, msn, aol, yahoo and other free account blacklisted servers

2010-12-09 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
From: Colbeck, Andrew acolb...@bentallkennedy.com Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 5:52 PM To: declude.junkmail@declude.com Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Large amount of hotmail, msn, aol, yahoo and other free account blacklisted servers Thanks, Pete and Scott. As always, Pete

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Large amount of hotmail, msn, aol, yahoo and other free account blacklisted servers

2010-12-09 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
[mailto:supp...@declude.com] On Behalf Of Colbeck, Andrew Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2010 12:26 PM To: declude.junkmail@declude.com Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Large amount of hotmail, msn, aol, yahoo and other free account blacklisted servers Harry, the snippet I included was the literal text, you

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Large amount of hotmail, msn, aol, yahoo and other free account blacklisted servers

2010-12-08 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
servers On 12/6/2010 2:47 PM, Colbeck, Andrew wrote: I have the same position as Scott. I find that the MessageSniffer product from ARM Research is the most reliable test snip/ Hotmail in particular would be less effective for the bad guys if I had an antispam tool that would determine from

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Large amount of hotmail, msn, aol, yahoo and other free account blacklisted servers

2010-12-06 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
I have the same position as Scott. I find that the MessageSniffer product from ARM Research is the most reliable test at catching spam from freemail accounts. Second best is a URI product, but much of the spam from freemail accounts is scam text that doesn't have a URL, or the spammer

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Regex to block this?

2010-07-27 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Flavour of the day: Relevant bits of the header: Received: from payoff.all-debt-forever.com [173.192.161.27] Subject: Stay on top of your credit report Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Header has DKIM. Network allocation

[Declude.JunkMail] A small Junkmail enhancement suggestion

2010-07-15 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
David, are you there? The FROMNOMATCH test introduced in 2006 checks whether the MAILFROM matches the From: header. I suggest an enhancement to reduce false positives: that the FROMNOMATCH is suppressed if the Sender: header line is present. The Sender: header line is used to indicate that

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Fine tuning Declude

2010-05-12 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
I wrote a batch file once on a number of the exchange servers that used VBS and LDAP to generate a list of valid exchange recipients and then FTP them to the server where a CF script parsed it clean. Michael, it sounds like you were most of the way there. Alligate does have the feature you

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] SORBS Website Down?

2010-05-12 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
It may have been down when you looked, Andy. It's up now. Also, I like to use this 3rd party for an instant second opinion: http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com Andrew 8) From: supp...@declude.com [mailto:supp...@declude.com] On Behalf Of Andy Schmidt

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] We have opened up truncate.gbudb.net

2010-04-30 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
I'm replying here so as not to clutter the announcement thread. The rationale for not using 127.0.0.1 is that the DNSBL is reflexive, and 127.0.0.1 is conventionally resolved as localhost and querying for localhost in a DNSBL is wrong, wrong, wrong. Expanding on that, the 127.0.0/8 network for

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] We have opened up truncate.gbudb.net

2010-04-30 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Matt There aren't that many RFC hawks around here these days :) ... The wikipedia entry points to an early work, this draft: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-irtf-asrg-dnsbl-08 Pete Odd that nobody complained about it before. I hadn't implemented it yet... And I'm a complainer. Andrew ;)

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] multistage filtering [OT]

2010-02-10 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
I'm another Alligate fan on the Windows platform. It is a very smart and effective product. I have conservative settings that stick close to the defaults and my configuration rejects 80% of the inbound connections.Before I implemented Alligate, my Declude was hurting because of my large filter

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] CBL:IP is Blacklisted

2009-02-13 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Here's the answer, Todd. http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_fo...@list.ipswitch.com/msg103112.html It's an old problem with CBL and IMail. Certainly, CBL is at fault and by now they should have at least taken up SPF record checking to weed out false positives. I just checked your SPF record and

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Re:Declude vs Perry

2008-09-09 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Perhaps suing your partners is a Rich Person(tm) idea of good Corporate Stewardship(tm). It certainly is a far cry from supporting, promoting, and improving the product line, you know, the normal way a company Earns Money(tm). Andrew. From: [EMAIL

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] SPF Issue

2008-09-03 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
One thing, Serge. You don't need both TXT records. The one called mail is useless. p.s. here's yet another SPF record checking website http://www.kitterman.com/spf/validate.html Andrew. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Serge Sent:

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Mail Pre-Processor recommendations

2008-05-29 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
, 2008 6:15 AM To: declude.junkmail@declude.com Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Mail Pre-Processor recommendations Colbeck, Andrew wrote: I use Alligate from Solid Oak Software, and I like it a lot. as do I. The really slick part is how it reduces bandwidth - it *very* accurately distinguishes

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Mail Pre-Processor recommendations

2008-05-28 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
I use Alligate from Solid Oak Software, and I like it a lot. On my primary gateway, I received just shy of 500,000 connections in the last 24 hours, and my Declude only had to see 4% of that traffic. Yes, 4%. I'm spending less time doing clever things in Declude, because Alligate is

RE: Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] form spam filter

2008-04-10 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Definition of: ohnosecond That tiny fraction of a second it takes for you to realize you've just made a big mistake on the computer. For example, you just clicked No when prompted to save the document you've been composing all day. Or, you just clicked Send, and forgot to delete the profanity

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] 4.4.00 Released

2008-04-04 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
David Barker said: DEC ADD Added date, Time, Email, Spool name, Weight and Tests failed to the BLKLST log Dave, the what log? Andrew. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Barker Sent: Thursday, March 27,

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] 4.4.00 Released

2008-04-04 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
PM To: declude.junkmail@declude.com Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] 4.4.00 Released Andre - Colbeck, Andrew wrote: David Barker said: DEC ADD Added date, Time, Email, Spool name, Weight and Tests failed

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Forged-Spam Backscatter

2008-04-03 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Symantec says that backscatter-as-deliberate-spam-technique is back in vogue. See their April State of Spam Report http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/security_response/weblog/2008/04/post _8.html Andrew. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Hardware upgrade -Software Crossgrade?

2008-03-10 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Alexander, you are really citing two problems with your scale and performance. The first is that you have older hardware and lots of mailboxes. Where do your CPU and disk spend their time? On antispam, or on servicing connections and mailboxes? The second is that your spam detection is less

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Is Tqmcube.com dead???

2008-02-21 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Chuck, was it just the prc.tqmcube.com that returned these? I see on their own RBL checker web page that only the Peoples Republic of China zone returns this error. When I query their servers for a few test IPs, including 127.0.0.2, I don't get an error or a positive response, everything fails.

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Yahoo Blocking Email

2008-02-21 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
And as a further best practice to what Matt is advising, I'll mention that ideally you want to send all outbound mail from an IP that is different from your inbound gateways. And that your outbound bulk mail would be separate from both. Andrew. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Is Tqmcube.com dead???

2008-02-21 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
off for now. Chuck Schick Warp 8, Inc. (303)-421-5140 www.warp8.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colbeck, Andrew Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 12:58 AM To: declude.junkmail@declude.com Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] How can I filter this...?

2008-02-08 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
(another country heard from) David... Chuck... the MAILFROM is going to filter based on the server-side conversation (i.e. for IMail users, it will be the value from the Q*.smd file, not any text in the D*.smd file). The example that Chuck gave is going to be the From: line in the message

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Blackice Server EndOfLife - need replacement

2008-01-04 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
If it is going on all the time, use the command line and issue: netstat -b which will show you the executable name and the connection. If you need to narrow down the TCP connection over a longer period of time, use the free TCPView from Sysinternals dot com (now a Microsoft Technet site).

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] 4.3.46

2007-12-27 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Happy Holidays, David! How about a shiny new all_list.dat to ring in the New Year? Andrew. --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail. The archives can be found at

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Hardware Upgrade

2007-12-21 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Hello, Serge. I'm happy to chime in here, but let me start off with saying that you will get divergent opinions here, and that nobody will be absolutely right, as our answers are coloured by own experiences, and each implementation is unique. I'll also start off with asking you for your current

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] filters

2007-11-26 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Bonno, you can do this, but probably not in a single filter file. A couple of key points for advanced filter file usage: You can define weights per tests in a filter file, and you can assign weight to a whole filter file, and these weights are cumulative. You can trigger a filter file even

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Interesting Spam

2007-09-06 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Well, the easy part is answering your question about the domains. Each of the payload domains was registered today, so whatever service you're using to look up the registrations is probably using a database at least a day behind. I use (for example) this site to my satisfaction:

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] APEWS test results

2007-08-31 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
FYI, both SORBS and UCEPROTECT stopped mirroring APEWS due to the low quality of the list. Also, the SANS ISC recently diarized an issue with the APEWS using one of their sources in a manner they do not recommend: http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=3189 Andrew.

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] New Spam

2007-08-22 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Here are two links from antivirus vendors that describe the template the Storm botnet has been putting out. These should be very useful in crafting regexp to catch them all based on their body text. http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/#1255 http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/#1255

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] New All_list.dat 16 Aug 07

2007-08-16 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
That's good news, David. Thank you for supplying updates proactively. Andrew. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Barker Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 11:52 AM To: declude.junkmail@declude.com Subject: [Declude.JunkMail]

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Has Senderbase become worthless?

2007-07-31 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Chuck, it probably only means that your Declude configuration is effectively blocking the major spammers, and that the cases you are chasing are fresh zombies on networks whose registrations are handled by RIPE or APNIC, and that you need to refer to them for the specific information. If a zombie

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Country code

2007-07-04 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Effing spammers? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Fisher Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 9:57 PM To: declude.junkmail@declude.com Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] Country code I'm

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] phone regex/pcre help

2007-07-03 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Scot, my eyes water when I look at a long regexp. So without trying to work out that specific PCRE syntax, I'll suggest two things: 1) Make a generic detection that finds zero or more junk characters between the text you're looking for. The longer the parent string is, the less likely you are

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] all_list.dat

2007-06-29 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
I believe that the data isn't actually corrupt. The crux of the issue: What R Scott Perry objected to when he was the sole programmer was that the EU is a political body, and that the RIPE data should be stating the exact country that the IP allocation is in. If the IP is in the Netherlands,

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] New PDF worm?

2007-06-27 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
SJ, they're not viruses, they're spam sent from zombies. Probably pump and dump stock spam, and if they're like what I've been seeing, they have the same anti-OCR techniques that were previously sent as jpg. http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg03447.html and:

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] New PDF worm?

2007-06-27 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
I'll suggest an alternative to this. If you're using the CB-ATTACH filter and you want to keep it without giving spammers too much entry, use an END filter with your blacklist tests. If the sender's IP address is in the blacklist, the CB-ATTACH test will stop. This will still counterweight

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Software for copying files with permissions

2007-06-26 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Sharyn, you might be interested in a more complete tool from Microsoft that is free and was designed with your task in mind: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d00e3eae-930a-4 2b0-b595-66f462f5d87bDisplayLang=en It's called the File Server Migration Toolkit, and it takes

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT - Outlook Junk Mail Folder

2007-06-20 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Dean, I did some Googling for you and found some likely hits, including this from Microsoft: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA010450051033.aspx You may find a nugget of advice there for how your campaigns can avoid the filter. Typically, the advice by senders such as yourself is to plea

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] APEWS

2007-06-12 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
It looks and reads exactly the same as some previous list that I've forgotten about. I haven't tried it... Andrew. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Bilbee Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 4:51 PM

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] HELP with tqmcube.com

2007-05-24 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
I suggest that you always use a different source IP and sender domain name when contacting the admin for a blacklist, because they often filter their own mail with their blacklist, so they won't see your plea. Stupid, but true. Andrew. From: [EMAIL

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] all_list.dat ?

2007-05-17 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
x7007 F: 978.988.1311 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colbeck, Andrew Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 7:42 PM To: declude.junkmail@declude.com Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] all_list.dat ? Hey

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] all_list.dat ?

2007-05-17 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
x7007 F: 978.988.1311 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colbeck, Andrew Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 7:42 PM To: declude.junkmail@declude.com Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] all_list.dat ? Hey

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] all_list.dat ?

2007-05-17 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
x7007 F: 978.988.1311 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colbeck, Andrew Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 7:42 PM To: declude.junkmail@declude.com Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] all_list.dat ? Hey

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] all_list.dat ?

2007-05-17 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
x7007 F: 978.988.1311 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colbeck, Andrew Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 7:42 PM To: declude.junkmail@declude.com Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] all_list.dat ? Hey

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] all_list.dat ?

2007-05-16 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Hey, David. Any chance of seeing a refresh of all_list.dat ... It's been just about 4 months since the last one. Three or four times a year doesn't sound bad. Andrew 8) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colbeck, Andrew Sent

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Phishing

2007-05-15 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Without my so much as glancing at the potential false positives, this is a treasure trove or actual phishing URLs: http://www.phishtank.com/phish_archive.php A glance at which tells me that another useful PCRE would be to (pseudo code follows): IPADDRESS then (/ character) then stuff including

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Spam reduction ?

2007-05-04 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
The last two weekends were noticeably quiet compared to the weekdays. Judging from the number and flavour of blowback bounce messages I see, the bad guys are concentrating on fewer campaigns but at higher volumes. The general trend is still up. Spam volumes climbed at increasing rates up to

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Ever legit?

2007-04-26 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Robert, you would use a filter file for this, e.g. #First, escape this file if the source is on your own network REMOTEIP END CIDR 208.100.26.0/24 REMOTEIP END CIDR 192.168.0.0/24 #Skip this whole test if we are already above a hold weight of 20 SKIPIFWEIGHT 25 #Apply a maximum total weight

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Warning re: DECLUDE - CRITICAL VIRUS SCANNING UPDATE

2007-04-17 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
My only two cents on this: If I were David Barker I would have: - Pulled out the bad package - Rolled a new package (with an incremented version number) with the missing DLL, tested the package succesfully and posted it to the website for downloaded - Checked my shopping cart or web logs and

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Vulnerability in RPC on Windows DNS Server Could Allow Remote Code Execution

2007-04-13 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
The Administrators who should be applying the workaround are precisely the same Administrators that have accidentally allowed inbound connections on arbitrary ephemeral ports, i.e. if they clumsily opened connections as per Darryl's suggestion of how/why this lack of firewalling might happen. If

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Vulnerability in RPC on Windows DNS Server Could Allow Remote Code Execution

2007-04-13 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
: http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?date=2003-08-11 Matt Colbeck, Andrew wrote: The Administrators who should be applying the workaround are precisely the same Administrators that have accidentally allowed inbound connections on arbitrary ephemeral ports, i.e

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Imail Anti-spam

2007-04-11 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
I'm biased in favour of Declude, too. What I find is that there is NO test that is perfect, so Declude's weighted system is the right fit for me. Last time I bothered to look, all of IMail's features were weak copycats of Declude and/or industry standard tests, and a SINGLE triggered feature

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Bounce / Spoof Analysis Help Please

2007-03-16 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
You're safe, Robert. I've seen this part in spam sent to my domain for about a year: Received: from 208.100.26.91 (HELO smtp.igive.com) by hoffman.army.mil with esmtp (9(A'R/,ZVN :36=Q+) id JLM3A5-)G'4.A-M/ The gibberish in the received block is a definite spam signature and is

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] PCRE FILTERING

2007-03-14 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
This was an old, old feature request/bug fix from back in the Scott days, where it was desired not include encoded base64 I requested this as a change long ago for two reasons: 1) To avoid false positives where search text matches the MIME or UUENCODE formatting 2) To provide an instant

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude/Sniffer Issues

2007-02-19 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
In my declude.cfg I have set the: AUTOREVIEW OFF which is the default for this directive. I've seen a poison email that makes Declude crash or stop quietly, and AUTOREVIEW ON just puts the poison email back in the queue again. You may find that there are c:\declude.gp1 and c:\declude.gp2

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] dns attacks today

2007-02-12 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
FWIW, Paul Parisi is not only the CTO of DNSStuff.com but is also the CTO of Declude.com ... Which helped me frame David's reply! http://www.declude.com/site/news1017.htm http://www.boston.com/business/whoswhat/2006/12/declude_newbury.html Andrew. p.s. I ran a whois on a few typo variations on

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] SPAM reductions ?

2007-01-31 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Karl, maybe your spam slowdown is because of the lame delegation of two out of three of your DNS servers listed in your WHOIS. http://www.dnsreport.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=casselberry.org How long have you not been using the DNS servers at twtelecom.net ? Andrew.

[Declude.JunkMail] Corrupt HELO causes fall-through of a spammy message?

2007-01-29 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
One of my users received a spammy message which accumulated enough weight to reach our HOLD action. What I think happened is that the HELO, which has various high-bit characters which are illegal in a HELO caused bad parsing of that line in the header... The BADHEADERS and HELOBOGUS were both

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] all_list.dat ?

2007-01-18 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Thanks, David. The early report is that it's working for me. Andrew 8) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Barker Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 7:37 AM To: declude.junkmail@declude.com Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail]

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] WAY OT: Registry Repair

2006-12-19 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
key and try to reset the child permissions (or just Child ownership) - I get an error when indicating that it can't do so for Run. - Original Message - From: Colbeck, Andrew mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: declude.junkmail

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] ORDB.Org Shutting Down

2006-12-18 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Thanks, Michael. That was a good tip. Andrew. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Jaworski Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 10:09 AM To: declude.junkmail@declude.com Subject:

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] WAY OT: Registry Repair

2006-12-18 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Andy, five will get you ten that it is the permissions that are mangled, not the key itself. Run RegEdit.exe and right-click on the Run key, then choose Permissions. Go into the Advanced button and choose to Inherit from parent... and the permissions should get fixed up. You should see:

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Interesting Discussions

2006-12-15 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Great Scott!! ... Well with the clarity of 20/20 hindsight, I used mail-archive.com with the IMail forum to see what you guys have talked about so fondly. Ugh. I don't miss that noise at all. The interesting thing is, how many people in those threads are still around *here* today. Also, that

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] New Reporting Tool

2006-12-12 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
The error means that the Perl interpreter thought that there was a regular expression (hence, regex) at line 443 which had an unmatched square bracket. I don't see anything wrong with the line 443 in Karl's posting, nor do I see what should have been a regular expression, in that line, which I

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] \spool\charset directory

2006-12-12 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Harry, check your global.cfg and see if you have a test with a COPYTO action that copies the email to that spool\charset folder when the test is triggered. Then comment out that test and action. Andrew. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Spamhaus

2006-11-15 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
I just read that, too. I've commented out my NJABLPROXIES ip4r test in my global.cfg and noted that this is duplicated in my XBL test. Andrew 8) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darin Cox Sent: Wednesday,

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Spamhaus

2006-11-15 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
And if you're wondering where the BLITZED ip4r test went: http://wiki.blitzed.org/OPM_status Andrew 8) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colbeck, Andrew Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 5:13 PM

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Negative weight isn't working

2006-11-09 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Todd, do this from a command line: C:\Tempnslookup 66.187.204.25 Server: Andrew's.obfuscated.dns.server Address: 192.168.0.1 Name:treets100.ibsys.com Address: 66.187.204.25 C:\Temp That tells me that your REVDNS won't match, because their reverse DNS is *not* the same as the HELO value

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Negative weight isn't working

2006-11-09 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
... Todd -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colbeck, Andrew Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 2:23 PM To: declude.junkmail@declude.com Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Negative weight isn't working Todd, do this from a command

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] whitelisting based on rev dns

2006-11-08 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Craig, I don't use any of the Declude WHITELIST features due to the potential for giving the sender carte blanche access; if a known good sender is sending crap, I still want to have a chance to block the crap. What I do is counterweight. I create a filter file called, say,

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] declude not modifying subject line

2006-11-08 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Me three! Is it done yet? No? Darn. Frankly, David, if the Declude app is going to have to rewrite the whole message anyway to insert headers, make it an optional *feature* to fix up the line terminators. Then market it as a unique feature; I understand that Venture Capitalists love their

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Weighting based on some Imail Tests...?

2006-11-08 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
The traditional answer on this is that IMail does not mark up the header until after Declude returns control of the message to it, so therefore, Declude can not leverage any of the tests that IMail does. That does not stop you from using any of the IMail features though if you want to think of

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] whitelisting based on rev dns

2006-11-08 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
In the header of the message, look at the last IP address in square brackets, this is the IP address of the sending email server. The text just before it is the HELO sent by it, and is often unreliable with legitimate mail, and practically a work of fiction with spam.To get the REVDNS that

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Adding custom header line

2006-11-02 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Markus, I believe that the XINHEADER and XOUTHEADER directives in the global.cfg are what you're looking for. They can be used to create an arbitrary header and populate it with any exposed Declude variables, e.g.: #XINHEADER X-Note: This E-mail was sent from %REVDNS% ([%REMOTEIP%]).

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Adding custom header line

2006-11-02 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Oops, sorry, I jumped the gun and gave the wrong answer. What I meant to say was that the %TESTSFAILED% variable could be used with either XINTHEADER/XOUTHEADER and the client would have to parse the whole line for, say, a traditional WEIGHT20 entry. If there's a way to create an arbitrary entry

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] all_list.dat is outdated

2006-10-26 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
DB 1. The all_list.dat is not updated every release. DB 2. The latest all_list.dat is posted on the My Account page 6 July 06 Worse, David, is that the then-current all_list.dat is not packaged with the release. When Declude v3.13 was packaged, it included builds of decludeproc.exe dated

[Declude.JunkMail] all_list.dat is outdated

2006-10-25 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
The version in the customer login area is out of date, and the one inside the "current" Declude installer is 3 months further out of date, even though the installer is newer than the all_list.dat ... Andrew. ---This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. Tounsubscribe,

[Declude.JunkMail] Microsoft takes a (third?) stab at promoting SenderID

2006-10-24 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/oct06/10-23OSPSenderIDPR.m spx Andrew. --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail. The archives can be found at

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: imail q files magically dissapearing

2006-10-23 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
I've noticed the same thing in all versions of Ipswitch IMail Server; the cause was broken connections, 99% of which were spam. Only in the absolute latest, v9.10 from Sep-06-2006, have I noticed that IMail cleans up after itself. There is an item about this in the latest release notes.

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Whitelisting flaw in Declude?

2006-10-19 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Yeah, what Matt said. Message splitting before junkmail filtering would bepunishing for CPU time and somewhat more for disk time; message splitting for the sake of whitelisting (or alternate actions)after junkmail filtering would be an incremental cost. And message splitting before

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] anyone know what ssdmbs.exe is?

2006-10-05 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Hey, Craig. Did you resolve this, and what was the outcome? Andrew 8) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colbeck, AndrewSent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 8:46 AMTo: declude.junkmail@declude.comSubject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] anyone know

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Disk pattern 0xDF in files - Microsoft confirms KB920958 bug!

2006-09-27 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
to make this only trigger say every 15 minutes instead of more regularly. Feel free to add to this if you want. Matt Colbeck, Andrew wrote: I'd second that... on both the observed behaviour and the request for documentation

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] anyone know what ssdmbs.exe is?

2006-09-26 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Never heard of ssdmbs.exe ... Search your filesystem for the file and see if the location or right-clicking on it gives you any insight. I like to use Process Explorer from sysinternals.com for stuff like this.It's like Task Manager but has all the features you wished it had, like

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