[sniffer] Re: Fw: lot's of legit mailservsr in spamdatabases

2007-04-19 Thread Markus Gufler
Hi Bonno tin.it is one of Italians largest ISP's and the (not new) problem is that many blacklists does catch a RELATIVE high number of spam messages COMPARED to the number of legit messages simply because the traps measuring this traffic are located elsewhere then Italy or Europe. There are

[sniffer] Re: SPAM Problems

2006-10-23 Thread Markus Gufler
Ciao Filippo Can you see any pattern of mailfrom, mailto or IP-Address what causes all this messages in your spool folder? Telneting to your MX show that you're using Imail 8.05 and I assume in conjunction with Declude and Sniffer. It turn's also out that both logos.net and logos.it are not open

[sniffer] Re: AW: [sniffer] Re: Update pacing...

2006-06-23 Thread Markus Gufler
ouch I forgot in my previous message: Great script Andrew -thank you! Markus From: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colbeck, AndrewSent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 6:01 PMTo: Message Sniffer CommunitySubject: [sniffer] Re: AW: [sniffer] Re:

[sniffer] AW: [sniffer] Numeric spam source has been revealed

2006-06-09 Thread Markus Gufler
So now we know too that stock spam is send out by beagly infected zombies. Markus -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Colbeck, Andrew Gesendet: Freitag, 9. Juni 2006 17:36 An: Message Sniffer Community Betreff:

[sniffer]AW: [sniffer]Numeric spam

2006-06-07 Thread Markus Gufler
Today I've noticed that there is a relation between the recipient adresses that was used in the past 36 hours in the numeric spam messages and the following wave of stock-spam messages containing this png-graphic. After checking around 10 Mailboxes there is a correspondence of 100%. Or they

[sniffer]Numeric spam

2006-06-06 Thread Markus Gufler
Mabe people at Sniffer are already aware of this new type of spam. Not the malformed mailfrom one but this with the short number and nothing else in subject and body) Attached are some examples from the last 8 hours. All has failed some other tests and all has reached a final weight in order to be

[sniffer]AW: [sniffer]AW: [sniffer]Concerned about amount of spam going through

2006-06-06 Thread Markus Gufler
an awful lot of junk email not being caught by SNIFFER, it's being processed by Declude and failing some technical tests but not by SNIFFER. -Original Message- From: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Markus Gufler Sent: 06 June 2006 09:41

[sniffer]AW: [sniffer]A design question - how many DNS based tests?

2006-06-06 Thread Markus Gufler
I use around 80 tests on one system in order to watch them and how theri performance is going up and down. On other (high traffic) servers I use only the best one. I can confirm what others has mentoined as reliable blacklists (expect fiveten for european systems: fiveteen has a FP-Rate of around

[sniffer]AW: [sniffer]AW: [sniffer]AW: [sniffer]AW: [sniffer]Concerned about amount of spam going through

2006-06-06 Thread Markus Gufler
amount of spam going through Are you sure? That would mean you only nees sniffer, coz none of sniffer's ham is spam in the final result... -Original Message- From: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Markus Gufler Sent: dinsdag 6 juni 2006 12:25

[sniffer]AW: [sniffer]Spam Storm

2006-05-30 Thread Markus Gufler
Hi Pete Durring your last reports I haven't seen such a storm on my systems but now this one I can notice it one some of my servers. BTW: One of this servers has an usual spam/ham rate of 50/50% In the last 24 hours it was 90/10% From the 90% spam 79% was blocked with SBL-XBL durring

RE: [sniffer] [Fwd: Diann Helms]

2006-02-15 Thread Markus Gufler
Heimir, It's not a Sniffer-related answer but I personaly use a combination of a text filter file (looking for known geocities-links) and the IP-blacklist SORBS-DUHL (who contains dialup ip-ranges). As all my customers are connecting with SMTP-Auth or from known IP-ranges I can whitelist them. So

RE: [sniffer] [Fwd: Diann Helms]

2006-02-15 Thread Markus Gufler
would you share your filters? I assume Declude filters. Yes. Attached is the original message from Scott Fisher regarding the geocities-filter file. (I call it GEOCITIESLINKS) I've replaced each weight (100 and 75 points) with 0. So this test will add no weight to the final result. In

RE: [sniffer] problems!!!!

2006-02-08 Thread Markus Gufler
Harry, (please don't post your entire license code to a public list.) regarding the reliability of sniffer we should know that errors sometimes can happen, even at sniffer-side after they've worked for years now very relaible. I don't expect that such errors will happen now more often.

RE: [sniffer] problems!!!!

2006-02-08 Thread Markus Gufler
If I understand right you mean that if "experimental" rules are introduced you want to know about and so temporaly disable ruelbase updates on you server. As I know Sniffer has a much smarter way for doing this. They introduce experimental rules in a separate category (sniffer-exp) and look