[sniffer] Re: Experimental Abstract

2006-10-10 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Frederick, Tuesday, October 10, 2006, 8:14:15 AM, you wrote: Where can I find a list of the latest result codes. http://kb.armresearch.com/index.php?title=Message_Sniffer.TechnicalDetails.ResultCodes _M -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs, LLC

[sniffer] Re: Help for AutoSNF

2006-10-10 Thread Pete McNeil
to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send administrative queries to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs, LLC. # This message is sent

[sniffer] Re: MDaemon plug-in - Process inline during SMTP?

2006-10-03 Thread Pete McNeil
] On Behalf Of Pete McNeil Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 8:07 PM To: Message Sniffer Community Subject: [sniffer] Re: MDaemon plug-in - Process inline during SMTP? Hello Dave, The current version can't do this -- it doesn't know how to respond properly to the inline call. It only knows how

[sniffer] Re: Mdaemon plugin 'sleeping'

2006-09-30 Thread Pete McNeil
on. Also - why the sudden change? This has worked fine for some time. Can anybody pinpoint when (at what event precisely) this problem showed up? Those are my thoughts. _M -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs, LLC

[sniffer] Re: Error posting?

2006-09-30 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Dave, Saturday, September 30, 2006, 10:01:41 AM, you wrote: Why am I getting the following error when replying to a message here? It certainly is NOT automatic... and has never happened before today. Very odd. Your messages came through - including this one. _M -- Pete McNeil Chief

[sniffer] Re: Mdaemon plugin 'sleeping'

2006-09-30 Thread Pete McNeil
with the email address (login), fqdn of the pop3 server, and password we can tell our bots to go and collect messages from there and add them to our processing queues. (We poll as frequently as once per minute when traffic is slow). Hope this helps, _M -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research

[sniffer] Re: How Many get through

2006-08-25 Thread Pete McNeil
messages in my other mail boxes also, so it relates to a lot of deleting?   Could I have something set up incorrectly? Or thresholds set to low that they are getting through?   Thanks for any info!   Sincerely, Gary Stark -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm

[sniffer] Re: FW: Summary, Form #21539

2006-08-23 Thread Pete McNeil
of a challenge. We will continue to work on it. _M -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs, LLC. # This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list sniffer@sortmonster.com. To unsubscribe, E-mail

[sniffer] Re: Paypal failing SNIFFER-GENERAL

2006-08-23 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Darin, I may be behind... but I don't see an FP report on this. Do you have the rule id? _M Wednesday, August 23, 2006, 1:36:08 PM, you wrote: FYI... I just reported one of these, so watch out. Darin.     -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs

[sniffer] Re: Paypal failing SNIFFER-GENERAL

2006-08-23 Thread Pete McNeil
the authorization code) 20060823163449 D83a20d3001502962.SMD 0 32 Match 1100444 60 1502 1551 98 20060823163449 D83a20d3001502962.SMD 0 32 Final 1100444 60 0 3798 98 The FP was submitted at 1:34pm ET. Darin. - Original Message - From: Pete McNeil [EMAIL PROTECTED

[sniffer] Re: Another example of an empty email but looking at the source.

2006-08-23 Thread Pete McNeil
Phone: (+612) 9453 1880 Mobile Phone: +614 18 282 648 POSTAL ADDRESS: PO BOX 190 BELROSE NSW 2085 AUSTRALIA. DELIVERY ADDRESS: 21 GLEN STREET BELROSE NSW 2085 AUSTRALIA.   -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs, LLC

[sniffer] Re: Am I submitting to s...@sortmonster.com properly

2006-08-22 Thread Pete McNeil
: GFR97DF     -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs, LLC. # This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list sniffer@sortmonster.com. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED

[sniffer] Re: Am I submitting to s...@sortmonster.com properly

2006-08-22 Thread Pete McNeil
. Jim Matuska Jr. Computer Tech2, CCNA Nez Perce Tribe Information Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pete McNeil Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 2:34 PM To: Message Sniffer Community Subject

[sniffer] Re: Lots of drug spam getting through

2006-08-21 Thread Pete McNeil
] To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send administrative queries to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs, LLC. # This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing

[sniffer] Re: Lots of drug spam getting through

2006-08-21 Thread Pete McNeil
of these yesterday but I don't know if the permutations are being caught. Andrew 8) -Original Message- From: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pete McNeil Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 8:38 AM To: Message Sniffer Community Subject: [sniffer] Re: Lots

[sniffer] Re: Newbie Question about .fin and .srv

2006-08-12 Thread Pete McNeil
to the INDEX mode, E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send administrative queries to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs, LLC. # This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list

[sniffer] Re: Sharon Daniels is out of the office.

2006-08-07 Thread Pete McNeil
PROTECTED] Send administrative queries to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs, LLC. # This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list sniffer@sortmonster.com. To unsubscribe

[sniffer] Re: Fwd: Re: Prima esperienza di striptease e poi sesso anale trovi qui

2006-08-03 Thread Pete McNeil
are willing to have a black rule for a particular word or phrase or perhaps some other attribute. Thanks, _M -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs, LLC. # This message is sent to you because you are subscribed

[sniffer] Re: New SPAM pain

2006-07-26 Thread Pete McNeil
to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send administrative queries to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs, LLC

[sniffer] Re: New SPAM pain

2006-07-26 Thread Pete McNeil
Community [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pete McNeil Sent: Wednesday, 26 July 2006 2:52 PM To: Message Sniffer Community Subject: [sniffer] Re: New SPAM pain Hello John, Wednesday, July 26, 2006, 1:57:18 PM, you wrote: I'm dying to start a thread and talk about Sniffer's stance

[sniffer] Re: MDLP

2006-07-12 Thread Pete McNeil
to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send administrative queries to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs, LLC. # This message is sent to you

[sniffer] Re: My rulebase download and log upload script

2006-07-10 Thread Pete McNeil
to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send administrative queries to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs, LLC. # This message is sent to you because you are subscribed

[sniffer] Re: Lot of stock spam getting through....

2006-07-07 Thread Pete McNeil
don't have any getting through spamtraps at the moment. I will look into it again. _M -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs, LLC. -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs, LLC. # This message

[sniffer] Re: Lot of stock spam getting through....

2006-07-07 Thread Pete McNeil
! And thanks for all of your efforts to simultaneously increase the catch rate and decrease the FP rate. Darin. -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs, LLC. # This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing

[sniffer] Re: compressed updates

2006-06-27 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Matrosity, Tuesday, June 27, 2006, 4:04:46 PM, you wrote: I was wondering if updates would ever be compressed in the future to save bandwidth? Actually, if you are using the scripts with wget and gzip, they are compressed on the fly by the web server. _M -- Pete McNeil Chief

[sniffer] Re: Update pacing...

2006-06-19 Thread Pete McNeil
functionality. Hope this helps, _M -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs, LLC. # This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list sniffer@sortmonster.com. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED

[sniffer] Re: Snf2check.exe on FreeBSD

2006-06-19 Thread Pete McNeil
, on this page you can find PerlAutoUpdates and a few others which might help: http://kb.armresearch.com/index.php?title=Message_Sniffer.TechnicalDetails.SubmittedScripts Best, _M -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs, LLC

[sniffer] Weight Gate Success? Failure?

2006-06-13 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Sniffer Folks, Is anyone successfully using the WeightGate utility? Anyone having trouble with it? I've literally heard nothing so far ;-) Thanks, _M -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs, LLC

[sniffer] Re: [sniffer]Re[2]: [sniffer]WeightGate source, just in case...

2006-06-08 Thread Pete McNeil
to debug it. _M -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs, LLC. # This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list sniffer@sortmonster.com. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To switch

[sniffer] Re: [sniffer]Re[2]: [sniffer]WeightGate source, just in case...

2006-06-08 Thread Pete McNeil
works ok. _M Testing. Sorry for the extra trafic - only way to debug it. _M This seems to be working ok, Thanks for your patience. _M -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs, LLC. # This message is sent to you because

[sniffer] Re: [sniffer][Fwd: Re: [sniffer]FP suggestions]

2006-06-08 Thread Pete McNeil
. I just had an interesting FP case like this. By the time the match record got to me along with what was supposed to be the original message, there were at least 9K bytes missing - including the bytes that presumably contained the rule match. _M -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs

[sniffer]Re[2]: [sniffer]FP suggestions

2006-06-07 Thread Pete McNeil
their registered email address or an authorized alias. _M -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs, LLC. # This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list sniffer@sortmonster.com. To unsubscribe, E

[sniffer]Re[2]: [sniffer]Re[2]: [sniffer]FP suggestions

2006-06-07 Thread Pete McNeil
WILL be responding to the submission message so that we can record a dialogue with you about the false positive in question. Hope this helps, Thanks, _M -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs, LLC. # This message is sent

[sniffer]Re[2]: [sniffer]FP suggestions

2006-06-07 Thread Pete McNeil
will see :-) _M -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs, LLC. # This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list sniffer@sortmonster.com. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To switch

[sniffer]Re[2]: [sniffer]Re[2]: [sniffer]FP suggestions

2006-06-07 Thread Pete McNeil
important for the FP resolution process to be interactive. _M -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs, LLC. # This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list sniffer@sortmonster.com. To unsubscribe

[sniffer]Re[2]: [sniffer]Re[2]: [sniffer]Re[2]: [sniffer]FP suggestions

2006-06-07 Thread Pete McNeil
was called with the following arguments: arg[0] me = WeightGate -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs, LLC. # This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list sniffer@sortmonster.com. To unsubscribe

[sniffer]Re[2]: [sniffer]Re[2]: [sniffer]Re[2]: [sniffer]FP suggestions

2006-06-07 Thread Pete McNeil
. :-) -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs, LLC. # This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list sniffer@sortmonster.com. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To switch to the DIGEST mode

[sniffer]Re[2]: [sniffer]Re[2]: [sniffer]Re[2]: [sniffer]A design question - how many DNS based tests?

2006-06-07 Thread Pete McNeil
not fail SNF. Generally this is done by copying the message to a pop3 account that can be polled by our bots. That is exactly what I was suggesting. We'll put it on our list to write a filter to do so when time permits. Just trying to help. Thanks very much! _M -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm

[sniffer]Re[2]: [sniffer]Re[2]: [sniffer]FP suggestions

2006-06-07 Thread Pete McNeil
). Yeah, we'd have to automate it. I can't imagine taking the time to manually match for each occurrence of no rule found. Another item for the automation list. _M -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs, LLC. # This message

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

2006-06-06 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Sniffer Folks, I have a design question for you... How many DNS based tests do you use in your filter system? How many of them really matter? Thanks! _M -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs, LLC. # This message

Re: [sniffer]Numeric spam

2006-06-06 Thread Pete McNeil
the pattern for the png stock spam but I've got a new family of rules in place for it now... I'm waiting on results to tally but I believe the rules will be effective. If not we will continue to work on them. Thanks, _M -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs, LLC

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

2006-06-06 Thread Pete McNeil
the damage and it is now happily sustaining ~900 msgs/minute so I don't expect further problems from it in the short term. Hope this helps, _M -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs, LLC. # This message is sent to you because you

[sniffer]Re[2]: [sniffer]A design question - how many DNS based tests?

2006-06-06 Thread Pete McNeil
Message- From: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Pete McNeil Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 9:26 AM To: Message Sniffer Community Subject: [sniffer]A design question - how many DNS based tests? Hello Sniffer Folks, I have a design question for you... How many

[sniffer]Re[2]: [sniffer]Numeric spam topic change to png stock spam

2006-06-06 Thread Pete McNeil
to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send administrative queries to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs, LLC. # This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list sniffer@sortmonster.com

[sniffer]Re[2]: [sniffer]Numeric spam topic change to png stock spam

2006-06-06 Thread Pete McNeil
PROTECTED] To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send administrative queries to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs, LLC. # This message is sent to you because you are subscribed

[sniffer]Re[2]: [sniffer]Re[2]: [sniffer]Numeric spam topic change to png stock spam

2006-06-06 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Nick, Thanks. That's all good then :-) _M Tuesday, June 6, 2006, 10:46:55 AM, you wrote: Pete McNeil wrote: Hello Nick, What is your false positive rate with that pattern? Hmm lets go to the MDLP for yesterday  :)                                            SS

[sniffer]Re[2]: [sniffer]AW: [sniffer]AW: [sniffer]Concerned about amount of spam going through

2006-06-06 Thread Pete McNeil
the blacklist tests. And free is good. On the same system, I noted that this made Sniffer about half as effective as fresh SURBL/URIBL testing, but I had no way to compare their overlap. Interesting. _M -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs, LLC

[sniffer]Re[2]: [sniffer]A design question - how many DNS based tests?

2006-06-06 Thread Pete McNeil
(on both the spam and ham sides of the equation), improving response time, increasing SNFs flexibility and breadth, reducing complexity, maintenance administration, and improving speed efficiency. _M -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs, LLC

Re: [sniffer]Sniffer updates down?

2006-06-02 Thread Pete McNeil
it must be local based on what I've seen so far. _M -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs, LLC. # This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list sniffer@sortmonster.com. To unsubscribe, E-mail

Re: [sniffer]Viagra Spam

2006-05-31 Thread Pete McNeil
. It is a new variant of the one that started yesterday. It has quite a bit of bandwidth behind it as well. Rate Graph Image attached. _M -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs, LLC. msgperhour48.jsp.png Description: PNG image

[sniffer]Spam Storm - It's a big one.

2006-05-26 Thread Pete McNeil
however. _M -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs, LLC. getchart.jsp.png Description: PNG image # This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list sniffer@sortmonster.com. To unsubscribe, E-mail

Re: [sniffer]spam storm

2006-05-23 Thread Pete McNeil
on the graph are lower than they might normally be... the shape of the graph is the important part of the image. The flow rates analysis (link at top) shows the shelf starting at 0100 and building. Hope this helps, _M -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs, LLC. getchart.jsp.png

Re: [sniffer]possibly moving to new os

2006-05-20 Thread Pete McNeil
our license to the new setup after we finish testing? Yes. If you have a valid license and you move to a new platform you can take that license with you. One license per MTA is all that we require. Thanks! _M -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs, LLC

[sniffer]Re[2]: [sniffer]Ebay Phishing Emails getting through

2006-05-18 Thread Pete McNeil
to these quickly and (from your perspective) automatically. _M -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs, LLC. # This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list sniffer@sortmonster.com. To unsubscribe, E-mail

Re: [sniffer]Ebay Phishing Emails getting through

2006-05-17 Thread Pete McNeil
. Certainly, submitting samples to spam@ (or preferably your local spam submission point polled by our bots) will put these messages in front of us if we have not already created rules for them. _M -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs, LLC

[sniffer]Re[2]: [sniffer]Ebay Phishing Emails getting through

2006-05-17 Thread Pete McNeil
the previous 24 hours things were _relatively_ quiet. _M -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs, LLC. getchart.jsp.png Description: PNG image # This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list

Test

2006-05-15 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello sniffer, Just testing. -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs, LLC. # This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list sniffer@sortmonster.com. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: [EMAIL

[sniffer] zipping log files

2006-05-12 Thread Pete McNeil
it... It's not set up yet (I've been distracted working on other SNF stuff) but I will have scripting in place to handle the above within a few minutes. Thanks, _M -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs, LLC. This E-Mail came from the Message Sniffer mailing list. For information

Re: [sniffer] zipping log files

2006-05-12 Thread Pete McNeil
to handle the above within a few minutes. The code is now in place and has been tested. Best, _M -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs, LLC. This E-Mail came from the Message Sniffer mailing list. For information and (un)subscription instructions go to http

[sniffer] Missing false positives from today - mail server changes are hard.

2006-05-12 Thread Pete McNeil
-- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs, LLC. This E-Mail came from the Message Sniffer mailing list. For information and (un)subscription instructions go to http://www.sortmonster.com/MessageSniffer/Help/Help.html

Re[4]: [sniffer] Lot of Drugs Spam getting through sniffer....

2006-05-06 Thread Pete McNeil
PROTECTED] CS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] CS On Behalf Of Pete McNeil CS Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 9:32 AM CS To: Darin Cox CS Subject: Re[2]: [sniffer] Lot of Drugs Spam getting through sniffer CS On Friday, May 5, 2006, 11:02:00 AM, Darin wrote: DC Not just drugs, but some others too have been

Re[2]: [sniffer] Lot of Drugs Spam getting through sniffer....

2006-05-05 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, May 5, 2006, 11:02:00 AM, Darin wrote: DC Not just drugs, but some others too have been slipping through the past DC couple of days. We've reported a little under 40 in the past couple of DC days. We saw a bit of a lull, then a rash of new campaigns bunched together with some new

Re[2]: [sniffer] Lot of Drugs Spam getting through sniffer....

2006-05-05 Thread Pete McNeil
We've had that rule before and had to pull it for false positives. _M On Friday, May 5, 2006, 11:41:50 AM, John wrote: JTL FYI, I created a Declude Filter: JTL Subject END NOTCONTAINS news JTL BODY25 CONTAINShttp://geocities.com/ JTL Been catching every one

Re[4]: [sniffer] Lot of Drugs Spam getting through sniffer....

2006-05-05 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, May 5, 2006, 1:08:14 PM, John wrote: JTL Well, I am at the point that I could care less about geocities false JTL positives. If GeoCities is going to allow this much spam junk then I could JTL care less about allowing them. That's fine. There are probably a number of systems that

Re[2]: [sniffer] Message loop

2006-04-20 Thread Pete McNeil
positive messages from you: SF Failed to deliver to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' SF mail loop: too many hops (too many 'Received:' header fields) SF - Original Message - SF From: Pete McNeil [EMAIL PROTECTED] SF To: Matt sniffer@SortMonster.com SF Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 7:03 PM SF Subject: Re

Re: [sniffer] Sniffer application

2006-04-19 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, April 19, 2006, 11:05:15 AM, Jeff wrote: JA Peter, JA I have taken over the network administration for Neptune Chemical Pump Co. JA Could I get a manual for the sniffer software. That is how to use set up JA and confirm it is still configured correctly. You can find the root

Re: [sniffer] Message loop

2006-04-19 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, April 19, 2006, 7:20:01 PM, Matt wrote: M M Pete, M M I tried replying to some FP reports and I received back some loop reports from your gateway: M M M M M Failed to deliver to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' M mail loop: too many hops (too many 'Received:' header fields) I'm

[sniffer] Bad Rule Alert: 963461

2006-04-18 Thread Pete McNeil
if it is easier) you can remove the rule-panic entry. Sorry for the trouble, Hope this helps, Thanks, _M Pete McNeil (Madscientist) President, MicroNeil Research Corporation Chief SortMonster (www.sortmonster.com) Chief Scientist (www.armresearch.com) This E-Mail came from the Message Sniffer

[sniffer] Bad Rule Alert: 963461 follow up.

2006-04-18 Thread Pete McNeil
rule pulled (963533) which was coded for a binary segment of an image file. No hits have been reported on the second rule at this time. Best, _M Pete McNeil (Madscientist) President, MicroNeil Research Corporation Chief SortMonster (www.sortmonster.com) Chief Scientist (www.armresearch.com

Re[2]: [sniffer] False positive processing

2006-03-21 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, March 21, 2006, 11:37:30 AM, Darin wrote: DC Nope. None of them. DC I haven't heard back from the replies to a couple of false positives on the DC 10th, and we haven't heard anything from our submissions on the 16th (6) and DC 17th (2). I don't remember if we've heard anything from

Re[4]: [sniffer] False positive processing

2006-03-21 Thread Pete McNeil
to investigate further and apply white DC rules. The others were normal FP reports. DC Thanks, DC Darin. DC - Original Message - DC From: Pete McNeil [EMAIL PROTECTED] DC To: Darin Cox sniffer@SortMonster.com DC Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 11:52 AM DC Subject: Re[2]: [sniffer] False

Re: [sniffer] Updates slow

2006-03-20 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, March 20, 2006, 3:58:03 PM, John wrote: JTL It seems today that updates have been slow to retrieve, the last one being JTL averaging 54 Kbps. Updates are triggered on the e-mail update notice. I just retrieved your rulebase at an average of 267K/sec via my DSL. My DL rate is 3Mbps -

[sniffer] New Web Site!

2006-03-17 Thread Pete McNeil
to update, improve, and correct the wiki - it will, in fact, be under constant development. Have fun! Thanks, _M Pete McNeil (Madscientist) President, MicroNeil Research Corporation Chief SortMonster (www.sortmonster.com) Chief Scientist (www.armresearch.com) This E-Mail came from the Message

Re[2]: [sniffer] New Web Site!

2006-03-17 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, March 17, 2006, 11:53:58 AM, John wrote: JTL What is the purpose of using a WIKI site? A few things really - * It's fast and easy to create, update, and correct the content. Things happen quickly here and in the messaging security business in general. It makes sense to use tools that

Re[4]: [sniffer] New Web Site!

2006-03-17 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, March 17, 2006, 12:50:40 PM, John wrote: JTL Pete, while I fully understand all of what you said, allowing any one JTL registered to edit any page is leaving things wide open for abuse. Isn't JTL there a way to set permissions on a section basis? Example, I should not JTL have the

Re: [sniffer] reporting spam

2006-03-16 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, March 16, 2006, 5:18:00 PM, Roger wrote: RM I just found out that when you are reporting received spam to RM [EMAIL PROTECTED], you should remove the Received: header added by your RM mail server. Otherwise you might create a rule that filters all mail from RM your mail server.

Re: [sniffer] New add compain

2006-03-10 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, March 10, 2006, 2:00:42 PM, John wrote: JTL I am seeing a log of spam with a subject line of with fw: or re: followed by JTL the username portion of the reciepient. Any way to create a rule for this? There's nothing simple we can do for this one based on that alone - at least not

[sniffer] F001 Rule Bot Change

2006-03-09 Thread Pete McNeil
. This may cause rulebase file sizes to change noticeably. Thanks, _M Pete McNeil (Madscientist) President, MicroNeil Research Corporation Chief SortMonster (www.sortmonster.com) Chief Scientist (www.armresearch.com) This E-Mail came from the Message Sniffer mailing list. For information and (un

Re[2]: [sniffer] F001 Rule Bot Change

2006-03-09 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, March 9, 2006, 8:48:43 AM, Nick wrote: NH Hi Pete - NH Pete McNeil wrote: Hello Sniffer Folks, The F001 Rule Bot has been adjusted. NH Is it possible for you to recommend a percentage of accuracy or maybe NH better stated a percentage of delete weight for each rule? I am

Re: [sniffer] [Fwd: Starbucks $500 Prize #972499912]

2006-03-07 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, March 7, 2006, 5:00:33 PM, Heimir wrote: HE Why is this not filtered? HE Every one of them contains the word HE Domains4u HE I have reported several but they are still coming in. Actually, they are now (I tried coding the message and duped out on the domain rules). Domains4u is

Re: [sniffer] declude tests

2006-03-07 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, March 7, 2006, 4:58:35 PM, Harry wrote: HV HV HV at the moment I run the following test in declude HV HV SNIFFER  external nonzero HV D:\IMail\Declude\sniffer\xx.exe  persistent 13 0 HV THIS IS WRONG! You should not have the persistent command line option

[sniffer] New Rulebot F001

2006-03-06 Thread Pete McNeil
been few IP rules at all since we disabled the old bots). The algorithms used in this bot have been tested manually for 2 weeks with no false positives. Expect an increase in your rulebase size while F001 catches up with current spamtrap data. Thanks, _M Pete McNeil (Madscientist

[sniffer] New rulebase compilers online.

2006-03-06 Thread Pete McNeil
updates should equate to lower spam leakage for new spam. You do not need to take any action on this. This note is for your information only. Thanks, _M Pete McNeil (Madscientist) President, MicroNeil Research Corporation Chief SortMonster (www.sortmonster.com) Chief Scientist

Re[2]: [sniffer] New Rulebot F001

2006-03-06 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, March 6, 2006, 3:13:53 PM, Jay wrote: JSHNL There's been at least one FP ;) JSHNL -- JSHNL Rule - 861038 JSHNL NameF001 for Message 2888327: [216.239.56.131] JSHNL Created 2006-03-02 JSHNL Source 216.239.56.131 JSHNL Hidden false JSHNL Blocked false

Re[2]: [sniffer] New Rulebot F001

2006-03-06 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, March 6, 2006, 3:42:50 PM, Darin wrote: DC We just reviewed this morning's logs and had a few false positives. Not DC sure if these are due to the new rulebot, but it's more than we've had for DC the entire day for the past month. DC Rules DC -- DC 873261 DC 866398 DC 856734

Re[2]: [sniffer] New rulebase compilers online.

2006-03-06 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, March 6, 2006, 6:09:43 PM, Matt wrote: M Pete, M Does this mean that you are somehow supporting incremental rule base M updates, or is it that the compiler is just much faster so we will get M the same number of updates, but generally get them 40-120 minutes M earlier in relation to

Re[4]: [sniffer] New Rulebot F001

2006-03-06 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, March 6, 2006, 7:24:20 PM, Andrew wrote: snip CA I would like to state that I don't need Message Sniffer to CA identify servers that send bogus postmaster notifications. This CA would be entirely due to false positives such as the three CA examples above. CA Given that spammers

Re[2]: [sniffer] Sniffer, MDLP, and invURIBL?

2006-02-25 Thread Pete McNeil
On Saturday, February 25, 2006, 1:38:53 PM, Joe wrote: JW JW JW I would actually prefer that MDLP autotune the weight for JW invURIBL, but since the weights are managed by invURIBL and not JW Declude I don't know how this will work. I'm not familiar enough with invURIBL to know how it is

Re[2]: [sniffer] Running sniffer as a service

2006-02-24 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, February 24, 2006, 7:13:47 AM, Jeff wrote: JP Do I need to modify anything in my Declude configuration file where it calls JP the SNIFFER test in order for this to function ?? No. You set up a persistent instance outside of Declude and the other SNF instances adapt automatically. _M

Re[6]: [sniffer] When to go persistent

2006-02-24 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, February 24, 2006, 10:31:25 AM, Goran wrote: GJ Hi, GJ I just got my service up and running using Matt's post GJ http://www.mail-archive.com/sniffer@sortmonster.com/msg00169.html GJ It was simple especially since I already the resource kit installed. GJ Now I know that this I

Re: [sniffer] False Positives

2006-02-23 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, February 23, 2006, 5:48:55 AM, Kevin wrote: KR So when I asked how I would send in false positives, someone mentioned KR that I should look up the appropriate log entry and send that in. That KR brings up another question. My log file is 270MB and climbing. I've KR never opened it

Re: [sniffer] When to go persistent

2006-02-23 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, February 23, 2006, 11:30:02 AM, Goran wrote: GJ Hi, GJ Is there any good rule of thumb, in terms of messages processed per GJ minute/hour/day when you should move to a persistent instance of GJ Sniffer? I would suggest using the persistent mode unless you have a reason not to. (In

Re[2]: [sniffer] When to go persistent

2006-02-23 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, February 23, 2006, 11:53:51 AM, LLC wrote: JISL I'm investigating the persistant mode and read the info on the web site. JISL Can't make heads or tails of it. JISL How do enable persistant mode on a Windows 2003 Server? The web site speaks JISL hypothetically, but the information

Re[4]: [sniffer] When to go persistent

2006-02-23 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, February 23, 2006, 12:59:24 PM, Goran wrote: GJ Pete, To run in persistent mode, simply launch an instance of SNF from the command line with the word persistent in place of the file to scan. licenseid.exe authentication persistent GJ I am calling Sniffer from Declude. Could

Re: [sniffer] What is this file

2006-02-23 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, February 23, 2006, 1:07:07 PM, Goran wrote: GJ Pete, GJ I have seen a couple of times that the file GJ C:\External\Sniffer\my license-20060221071316x386D4931-2352.SVR GJ Is open and cannot be backed up. GJ What is this file? I assume that I do not need to be worried since the GJ

Re: [sniffer] False Positive - no reaction?

2006-02-21 Thread Pete McNeil
I'm a little behind. I'm going to do false positives in the next 10 minutes. I only have 20 to do it should go fast. Sorry for the delay. Thanks, _M On Tuesday, February 21, 2006, 9:40:07 AM, Andy wrote: AS Hi, AS I filed this false positive report a day ago and never heard back. AS Just

Re[2]: [sniffer] False Positive - no reaction?

2006-02-21 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, February 21, 2006, 10:16:11 AM, Andy wrote: AS Sorry - didn't mean to be pushy. I just thought that false positives are AS worse than missed spam, so I had assumed that they would always be at the AS top of the queue. It is a very tough balancing act. Don't feel bad at all - you're

Re[4]: [sniffer] False Positive - no reaction?

2006-02-21 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, February 21, 2006, 11:16:43 AM, Andy wrote: snip/ AS The only other suggestion I have is to create a 24 hour 'queue' display on AS the web site. All you need to show is a column of the sender domain names of AS the email (not the entire sender email address). If I submit a false AS

Re: [sniffer] [Fwd: Diann Helms]

2006-02-15 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, February 15, 2006, 8:53:27 AM, Heimir wrote: HE Anyway to stop this spam. HE We are getting hundreds of them. HE I have personally gotten 23. It's a challenging one... there is almost no data, and the geocities link is constantly different. I've written another abstract to cover

Re[2]: [sniffer] [Fwd: Diann Helms]

2006-02-15 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, February 15, 2006, 11:02:11 AM, Bonno wrote: BB Hi Pete, BB [] If you wish, it is possible to create a local black rule for any geocities link. On many ISP systems this would cause false positives, but on more private systems it may be a reasonable solution. BB I think I

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