[sniffer] 404 on rulebase file downloads: new cleanup code

2006-02-15 Thread Pete McNeil
://www.armresearch.com/message-sniffer/forms/form-renewal.asp 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)subscription

Re: [sniffer] False Positive

2006-02-15 Thread Pete McNeil
Answered off-list _M On Tuesday, February 14, 2006, 2:07:48 PM, Steve wrote: SG Hello, SG Could you please tell me what would cause an email to fail rule # 831417 SG This was a good email flagged this morning and deleted. SG Regards, SG Steve Guluk SG SGDesign SG (949) 661-9333 SG ICQ:

Re: [sniffer] False Positives

2006-02-15 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, February 15, 2006, 3:54:50 PM, Kevin wrote: KR My users have been getting a lot of FPs by Sniffer lately. They send me KR the email with the FULL HEADERS displayed and I forward this email on to KR SortMonster. The program they use to analyze incoming submissions check KR MY email

Re[2]: [sniffer] False Positives

2006-02-15 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, February 15, 2006, 4:32:14 PM, Robert wrote: RG The X-SNF header. Sounds like a good idea. Is there a cheat sheet someplace RG for making that happen, if possible, in a Declude / Imail environment? RG Thanks ahead of time, In the distribution the option is described in the .cfg

Re[2]: [sniffer] False Positives

2006-02-15 Thread Pete McNeil
PROTECTED] JMJ JMJ -Original Message- JMJ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] JMJ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] JMJ On Behalf Of Pete McNeil JMJ Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 1:28 PM JMJ To: Kevin Rogers JMJ Subject: Re: [sniffer] False Positives JMJ On Wednesday, February 15, 2006, 3:54:50 PM

Re[2]: [sniffer] False Positives

2006-02-15 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, February 15, 2006, 4:48:43 PM, Computer wrote: CHS I second the motion. We have been submitting spam for over a year and I CHS don't know if a single one was received. In general, if you've not received an error during delivery, we most certainly got your message... it may have

Re: [sniffer] Max Evals Error

2006-02-13 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, February 13, 2006, 3:18:00 PM, David wrote: DS Anyone ever seen this in a log file of a valid license? DS 20060213200957 De7928e8800a61b18.smd 328 266 DS ERROR_MAX_EVALS 72 0 0 18885 1024 DS This line has shown up 3 times today in a log file that processes

Re[2]: [sniffer] problems!!!!

2006-02-08 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, February 8, 2006, 10:59:09 AM, Darin wrote: DC I have an idea.  These problems seem to stem mostly from changes DC in the methods of handling rulebase updates. snip/ DC Would it be feasible to announce in advance when such changes DC are to be implemented?  With advance notice

Re[2]: [sniffer] problems!!!!

2006-02-08 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, February 8, 2006, 11:06:07 AM, Markus wrote: MG If a experimental rule showed to be reliable they move them in MG the appropriate category (rich, fraud,...) MG MG   MG MG I'm not sure about this but I think it's so and so it shouldn't MG be necessary to do something like

Re: [sniffer] problems!!!!

2006-02-08 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, February 8, 2006, 11:19:52 AM, Andy wrote: AS Pete, AS The only idea I came up with, would be to have ALL new rules go into a 6 AS hour proving category (=return code) before they are moved into their AS final category. AS By using Sniffer return codes, folks could decide to trust

Re[4]: [sniffer] problems!!!!

2006-02-08 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, February 8, 2006, 11:26:46 AM, Darin wrote: DC There was no error in my comment. I completely understand that some issues DC will not be foreseeable... I did say mostly, not entirely. The switch to DC the automated bots caused a rash of false positives in our system. snip/

Re[6]: [sniffer] problems!!!!

2006-02-08 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, February 8, 2006, 12:34:44 PM, Darin wrote: DC Perhaps I used the wrong terminology about what changed, since I do not know DC what your system architecture is, but I remember you mentioning a DC significant change at the time. Immediately afterwards we saw a rash of DC false

Re: [sniffer] question on xhdr files

2006-02-08 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, February 8, 2006, 12:54:56 PM, David wrote: DP I am using a smtp proxy called Ewall with Message Sniffer. DP I just checked inside the Ewall folders and found one named TEMP where I DP found tens of thousands of files with the .xhdr extension. DP What are these? Are they needed?

Re[2]: [sniffer] question on xhdr files

2006-02-08 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, February 8, 2006, 1:32:05 PM, David wrote: The .xhdr files are created by SNF and can be turned off in SNF's .cfg file. They contain text that could be added to the headers of the message to help debug false positives and/or to trigger other filtering systems. DP Well I see

[sniffer] Bad Rule - 828931

2006-02-07 Thread Pete McNeil
If it is not already, the rule will be gone from your rulebase after your next update. 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

Re[2]: [sniffer] Bad Rule - 828931

2006-02-07 Thread Pete McNeil
the CHS rulepanic in place an hour ago it would have saved me a lot of work and CHS confused customers. CHS Thank you, CHS Michael Stein CHS Computer House CHS - Original Message - CHS From: Pete McNeil [EMAIL PROTECTED] CHS To: sniffer@sortmonster.com CHS Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 4

Re: [sniffer] Downloads are slow.

2006-02-07 Thread Pete McNeil
I'm not showing this from my location and the server looks ok. I just downloaded a few rulebases, each in under 3 seconds. Please provide a traceroute -- that should show us where the issue is (if it is still there). Thanks, _M On Tuesday, February 7, 2006, 4:39:35 PM, Chuck wrote: CS

Re: [sniffer] Bad Rule - 828931

2006-02-07 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, February 7, 2006, 6:15:13 PM, David wrote: DS Sorry, wrong thread on the last post. DS Add'l question. Pete, what is the content of the rule? The rule info is: Rule - 828931 NameC%+I%+A%+L%+I%+S%+V%+I%+A%+G%+R%+A Created 2006-02-07 Source

Re[2]: [sniffer] Downloads are slow.

2006-02-07 Thread Pete McNeil
.. .. .. 13.94 KB/s JC 15:52:29 (12.45 KB/s) - `.new.gz' saved [2646653] JC -Original Message- JC From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] JC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] JC On Behalf Of Pete McNeil JC Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 4:46 PM JC To: Chuck Schick JC Subject: Re: [sniffer] Downloads are slow

Re: [sniffer] Date/time stamp in logs

2006-02-07 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, February 7, 2006, 7:48:05 PM, John wrote: JC I don't get into the sniffer logs like I should, but just noticed this. It JC is 2/7/06 6:42 CST here, but my logs show 20060208004243, which would JC indicate +6 hours off of Zulu, Greenwich, Coordinated Universal Time, or JC whatever we

Re[5]: [sniffer] Bad Rule - 828931

2006-02-07 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, February 7, 2006, 8:14:53 PM, David wrote: DS Hello Pete, DS Tuesday, February 7, 2006, 8:11:50 PM, you wrote: DS Not sure, can anyone think of a way to cross check this? What if I put DS all the released messages back through sniffer? PM That would be good -- new rules were added

Re[4]: [sniffer] Stock SPAM now HTML

2006-02-02 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, February 2, 2006, 11:46:05 AM, Goran wrote: GJ This is going to get harder and harder to identify and fight. Is GJ it worthwhile to put something like this in a new category which GJ we are very confident about and so if it fails on the new combined GJ image/text thing we can delete

Re: [sniffer] Automate MDaemon Updating

2006-02-02 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, February 2, 2006, 12:25:01 PM, Grant wrote: GS Has anyone got an automated updating script for updating rulebases for GS MDaemon. I am just demoing the software now. The plugin seems to be GS working well. I have used the Imail script from the website that Bill GS Landry

Re[2]: [sniffer] The SPAM bots?

2006-01-30 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, January 30, 2006, 11:07:26 AM, Michiel wrote: MP G'day, MP I'm just wandering... what CAN be done about this? If I send an embedded MP picture to someone, how's sniffer gonna see the difference between my MP holiday picture and the stock spam? MP I reckon it's gonna be tough to block

Re: [sniffer] The SPAM bots?

2006-01-30 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, January 30, 2006, 10:16:06 AM, Goran wrote: GJ Hi, GJ Are the bots working again? I am seeing a number of the STOCK pitches GJ coming through (the ones that use the picture attachment eg. GJ tdimg border=0 alt= GJ src=cid:a8c0936faa69131141800cf3347d17a4/td) GJ Sniffer did not catch

Re: [sniffer] Stock Market Spam Messages

2006-01-26 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, January 26, 2006, 11:22:40 AM, Jim wrote: JMJ I seem to be noticing a lot of spam messages recently that are stock ads for JMJ offshore companies; I seem to be getting a lot of these that are not being JMJ classified by sniffer. I have been forwarding these to the spam@ address,

Re[2]: [sniffer] Stock Market Spam Messages

2006-01-26 Thread Pete McNeil
-Original Message- JMJ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] JMJ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] JMJ On Behalf Of Pete McNeil JMJ Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 8:53 AM JMJ To: Jim Matuska Jr. JMJ Subject: Re: [sniffer] Stock Market Spam Messages JMJ On Thursday, January 26, 2006, 11:22:40 AM, Jim wrote: JMJ I seem

Re: [sniffer] How can I

2006-01-19 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, January 19, 2006, 8:37:01 AM, Jeff wrote: JA JA JA I have been having a lot of problems with the rules since Friday. JA JA How can I see what rules are set for spamming. There are many thousands of rules. For security purposes we don't expose their content freely. If you

Re: [sniffer] nations blacklisted?

2006-01-19 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, January 19, 2006, 12:51:47 PM, David wrote: DP It seems I can not get mail from Brazil that does not fail the message DP sniffer test, regardless of content. DP Is this nation or any other totally black listed? I'm not aware of any rule that blocks any particular nation, nor any

Re[2]: [sniffer] Rollback of bot rules..

2006-01-19 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, January 19, 2006, 6:50:32 PM, Dave wrote: DK My bet is that either OB or WS trees of SURBL are the culprit. I've seen DK false postives from them before. Can your bot isolate the subs of the multi DK lookup and only use the more reliable ones like JP, SC, etc? I'm not sure about

Re: [sniffer] Help

2006-01-18 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, January 18, 2006, 8:34:15 AM, Filippo wrote: FP FP Hello, FP What's going on with rules? Today for 100 blocked by Sniffer FP more than 10 where really legitimate. FP Please advise. Everything should be functioning normally today. Please visit:

Re[2]: [sniffer] Help

2006-01-18 Thread Pete McNeil
Everything should be ok today. Please visit: http://www.mail-archive.com/sniffer@sortmonster.com/msg02346.html and http://www.mail-archive.com/sniffer@sortmonster.com/msg02348.html Thanks, _M On Wednesday, January 18, 2006, 8:57:25 AM, Ali wrote: AR AR AR Hi, AR AR   AR AR I am

Re: [sniffer] False Positives

2006-01-18 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, January 18, 2006, 8:57:56 AM, Ali wrote: AR Hi, AR Over the last 2 days I have seen a major increase in false positives. AR Literally all hotmail and yahoo address are being caught by sniffer AR inclusive of other legit domains. AR Please confirm what may be causing this and what

Re[2]: [sniffer] False Positives

2006-01-18 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, January 18, 2006, 8:42:22 AM, Frederick wrote: FS Same with me. Last night there was a rules update and it fixed the problem. FS Check the date of your rules update. Please visit http://www.mail-archive.com/sniffer@sortmonster.com/msg02346.html and

Re[2]: [sniffer] False Positives

2006-01-18 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, January 18, 2006, 8:54:49 AM, Darin wrote: DC Agreed. We counted 100 false positives yesterday, compared to our normal DC rate of less than 5. DC No false positives since 6pm ET yesterday, though. Thank goodness. Please visit:

Re: [sniffer] Help Help

2006-01-18 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, January 18, 2006, 11:06:44 AM, Filippo wrote: FP FP Hello, FP What's going on with rules? Today for 100 blocked by Sniffer FP more than 10 where really legitimate. Please visit: http://www.mail-archive.com/sniffer@sortmonster.com/msg02346.html and

Re[4]: [sniffer] False Positives

2006-01-18 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, January 18, 2006, 2:14:34 PM, Darin wrote: DC Are you just blanket responding to every message to the list with this? If DC so, you might be wasting your time. I've been following the list, so I know DC things are back to normal after yesterday's snafu. Sorry about that... It

[sniffer] Watch out... SURBL SORBS full of large ISPs and Antispam providres.

2006-01-17 Thread Pete McNeil
of the services hit by these bad entries. An example of some that we've found in SURBL for example are declude.com, usinternet.com, and w3.org It's not clear yet how large the problem is, but I'm sure it will be resolved soon. Hope this helps, Thanks, _M Pete McNeil (Madscientist

Re[2]: [sniffer] Watch out... SURBL SORBS full of large ISPs and Antispamprovidres.

2006-01-17 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, January 17, 2006, 7:21:11 AM, Matt wrote: M Pete, M w3.org would be a huge problem because Outlook will insert this in the M XML headers of any HTML generated E-mail. M If you could give us an idea of when this started and possibly ended, M that would help in the process of review.

Re[2]: [sniffer] Watch out... SURBL SORBS full of large ISPs and Antispamprovidres.

2006-01-17 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, January 17, 2006, 8:10:44 AM, Darrell wrote: Dsic Pete, Dsic I just checked real quick hitting several DNS servers (mine and others) and Dsic I am not seeing this - are you still seeing this now? Nope... it was short lived. _M This E-Mail came from the Message Sniffer mailing

Re[2]: [SURBL-Discuss] Fw: [sniffer] Watch out... SURBL SORBS full of large ISPs and Antispam providres.

2006-01-17 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, January 17, 2006, 10:15:51 AM, William wrote: WS ws.surbl.org does not have these domains, and it appears none of WS the other surbls does either. From WS http://www.rulesemporium.com/cgi-bin/uribl.cgi : WS SURBL+ Checker Query Results WS declude.com is 63.246.13.88 [ rbl

[sniffer] Rollback of bot rules..

2006-01-17 Thread Pete McNeil
rules removed. Once I resolve what happened to the bots I will let everyone know. 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

[sniffer] FP Sig IDs

2006-01-17 Thread Pete McNeil
issues. 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 mailing list. For information and (un)subscription instructions go

Re: [sniffer] Update

2006-01-17 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, January 17, 2006, 6:44:20 PM, Frederick wrote: FS FS FS Can you send the update or I will have to disable Sniffer. FS FS   FS FS It is catching almost all our emails. Your last update was 2144GMT, about 146 minutes ago (if my math is right). Pacing as at 150 minutes,

[sniffer] New Rulebase Compilers Installed.

2006-01-12 Thread Pete McNeil
for anything unusual. I expect no problems. 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)subscription

Re: [sniffer] lots of investment spam not being caught by sniffer...

2006-01-06 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, January 6, 2006, 2:09:12 PM, Chuck wrote: CS Hopefully the rulebase is being updated but we are getting slammed by this CS stuff. Stock push? I saw a bunch of broken stock push come through this morning (0330). Not getting any more through the traps. Also a lot of image based stock

Re[4]: [sniffer] Last chance to renew at the old price!

2005-12-28 Thread Pete McNeil
Yes. _M On Wednesday, December 28, 2005, 8:03:01 PM, Thomas wrote: FT FT FT Are they a valid reseller, sniffer-folks?? FT FT FT FT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FT [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin FT Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 8:00 PM FT To:

Re[4]: [sniffer] Last chance to renew at the old price!

2005-12-28 Thread Pete McNeil
I've done a quick review of this. The price quoted there is too low. I'm sure it's an honest mistake. I'll address it with them ;-) _M On Wednesday, December 28, 2005, 8:45:30 PM, John wrote: JTL JTL JTL JTL Absolutely not. In fact, if you read my post after this, I am JTL

Re[4]: [sniffer] Last chance to renew at the old price!

2005-12-28 Thread Pete McNeil
The biggest concern I have about this is that the price is too low - that is a violation. I'm sure it was unintentional, and if not, then the contract will be pulled. If you read closely, John T isn't on the wrong side here - he's asking the right questions. The price at ComputerHouse is out of

[sniffer] About Resellers, and the best laid plans of mice men...

2005-12-28 Thread Pete McNeil
of consultants, end users, VARs, OEMs, service providers, and even plain old interested parties that use and support SNF. After all, email security is a big concern for everyone and the best thing we can do is work together. Hope this helps, Thanks, _M Pete McNeil (Madscientist) President

[sniffer] Last chance to renew at the old price!

2005-12-27 Thread Pete McNeil
, _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)subscription instructions go to http://www.sortmonster.com

Re[2]: [sniffer] Last chance to renew at the old price!

2005-12-27 Thread Pete McNeil
notice the next time. DC Darin. DC - Original Message - DC From: Pete McNeil [EMAIL PROTECTED] DC To: sniffer@sortmonster.com DC Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 12:42 PM DC Subject: [sniffer] Last chance to renew at the old price! DC Hello Sniffer folks, DC This is just a friendly

Re[2]: [sniffer] Last chance to renew at the old price!

2005-12-27 Thread Pete McNeil
Koontz JDS Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 1:42 PM JDS To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 'Pete McNeil' JDS Subject: RE: [sniffer] Last chance to renew at the old price! JDS Thanks for the explaination. While this is all fine and good, the JDS reality JDS is that many IT shops are on fixed budgets outside

Re[2]: [sniffer] Last chance to renew at the old price!

2005-12-27 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, December 27, 2005, 5:14:13 PM, Thomas wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Murdoch If you don't feel that's the case, then you are free to decide if you think otherwise. Thanks and take care! FT EASY FOX

Re[2]: [sniffer] Last chance to renew at the old price!

2005-12-27 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, December 27, 2005, 1:31:04 PM, Steve wrote: SJ How can I tell when my subscription expires? You should have a note from your original purchase or your latest renewal. Also, you can ask ;-) I'll send you your current expiration directly. I hope to put up a self-serve tool for

[sniffer] A few updates...

2005-12-21 Thread Pete McNeil
partnership w/ AppRiver and the formation of ARM, we have sped up our rulebase delivery process by 267%!! (from 3.6 updates/day to 9.6 updates/day). That's all for now. Thanks, _M Pete McNeil (Madscientist) President, MicroNeil Research Corporation Chief SortMonster (www.sortmonster.com

[sniffer] Joe Jobs...

2005-12-15 Thread Pete McNeil
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)subscription instructions go to http://www.sortmonster.com

Re[2]: [sniffer] Joe Jobs...

2005-12-15 Thread Pete McNeil
Kevin KS -Original Message- KS From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] KS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] KS On Behalf Of Pete McNeil KS Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 11:30 AM KS To: sniffer@sortmonster.com KS Subject: [sniffer] Joe Jobs... KS Hello Sniffer Folks, KS Please be aware that there are several

Re[4]: [sniffer] POP3 Account Question

2005-12-06 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, December 5, 2005, 6:02:02 PM, John wrote: What is the best way to get a spam trap going. I have an old "abandoned" email account that I just use for testing. It gets some spam now, but a low volume. However, 100% of the mail is spam. It would be very easy to filter and keep

Re[4]: [sniffer] POP3 Account Question

2005-12-06 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, December 5, 2005, 6:02:02 PM, John wrote: What is the best way to get a spam trap going. I forgot to mention another way to set up spamtraps that I definitely "don't recommend". It is, of course, highly theoretical and possibly dangerous ;-) If a new pc (actually a very

Re[6]: [sniffer] POP3 Account Question

2005-12-06 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, December 6, 2005, 2:13:43 PM, William wrote: WVH Pete, WVH How about just creating some accounts that are commonly targeted by WVH dictionary attacks, but that were never actually valid accounts on our WVH server? I could redirect all of them to a common mailbox. There are also a WVH

Re: [sniffer] POP3 Account Question

2005-12-05 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, December 5, 2005, 3:28:17 PM, Scott wrote: I'm working on setting up a spamtrap that'll be for Sniffer. One question: Do you want the email to be filtered? The following is the best option for us - it provides the most useful data while still keeping the bandwidth as

Re[2]: [sniffer] POP3 Account Question

2005-12-05 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, December 5, 2005, 3:33:33 PM, Andrew wrote: I had the same question, but more specifically: Is is helpful for sniffer trap (spam and user trap) submissions to skip, or to include messages on which sniffer already hits. It's best for those messages to be removed. The

[sniffer] Organized Blackhats

2005-12-01 Thread Pete McNeil
day. Now back to work with me... 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)subscription instructions

Re: [sniffer] Organized Blackhats Imail Question

2005-12-01 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, December 1, 2005, 9:50:35 PM, Computer wrote: CHS Dear Pete, CHS Thank you for the beautifully-written and very informative treatise on how CHS the spammers operate. The time you put into the writing is greatly CHS appreciated. We also appreciate the work and research you are

Re: [sniffer]

2005-11-23 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, November 22, 2005, 5:54:21 PM, Tech wrote: Pete, What do we need to do up increase our rulebase strength I dont know if its just a larger amount of spam messages in general or a larger % of them getting through but I have customers complaining I don't recommend

Re: [sniffer]

2005-11-10 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, November 10, 2005, 8:07:18 AM, Daniel wrote: DB Hello, DB Can anyone tell me if the Mdaemon Plug-in runs in persistent mode? Also are DB there any plans to bring the plug-in to Version 1 status? The MDaemon plugin has no need for persistent mode because it is loaded and kept in

Re[2]: [sniffer]

2005-11-10 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, November 10, 2005, 9:40:42 AM, Daniel wrote: DB Hi Pete, DB Thanks for the info. I actually already have the current version running. DB I'm very happy with it's performance. I just did not have a clear DB understanding on those issues. DB On another note, when you have the new

Re[4]: [sniffer]

2005-11-10 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, November 10, 2005, 11:45:48 AM, Peer-to-Peer wrote: PtPS _M, PtPS _M said will create a default installation that emits headers and puts PtPS a .cf file in place for SA to interpret them. PtPS Not sure if this is relevant to your thought process, but we feel that SA PtPS

Re[6]: [sniffer] Rash of false positives

2005-11-09 Thread Pete McNeil
This problem with Dr.Watson errors has been covered before on Declude's support list as well as ours. It's actually not SNF itselft that's causing the problem, but rather an undocumented heap in Windows that can run out of space and cause the next item to load to fail with a Dr. Watson error.

Re[6]: [sniffer] Rash of false positives

2005-11-09 Thread Pete McNeil
It is _VERY_ important to validate rulebase files with the snf2check utility. The snf2check utility tests the rulebase files in ways that the SNF scanning utility does not (for the sake of speed). If you don't check your downloads with the snf2check utility you run the risk of pressing a

Re[2]: [sniffer] Rash of false positives

2005-11-08 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, November 8, 2005, 11:02:09 AM, Darin wrote: Hi Pete, The rash of false positives seems to have stopped with the last sniffer rulebase update at 10am ET. It had started with a rulebase update at 4:30pm ET yesterday, and continued through the updates at 8:40pm, 12am, 3am, and

Re[4]: [sniffer] Rash of false positives

2005-11-08 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, November 8, 2005, 3:25:20 PM, Darin wrote: Hi Pete, There was a consistent stream of false positives over the mentioned time period, not just a blast at a particular time. They suddenly started at 5pm (shortly after a 4:30pm rulesbase update), and were fairly evenly spread

[sniffer] Rule Strength Analysis Upgrades

2005-11-02 Thread Pete McNeil
. YOU DO NOT NEED TO TAKE ANY ACTION :-) All of this work will happen on our end of the Internet. 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

Re: [sniffer] Message Sniffer is not detecting some really bad email

2005-11-02 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, November 2, 2005, 4:48:29 PM, Gary wrote: We have had excellent results from Message Sniffer for severals years now. However, in the past few days items that I feel should have been caught, were not. Can I submit some samples to you? I would be glad to zip a couple of raw

Re[2]: [sniffer] Message Sniffer is not detecting some really bad email

2005-11-02 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, November 2, 2005, 4:56:07 PM, Glenn wrote: I've had quite a lot of bounces (D/Q.GSE pairs) in the past several weeks due to users with full mailboxes, 99.999% of them are bounces on spam. When I examine the quoted headers in the D.GSE files, an appreciable number of them

Re: [sniffer] Adding Rules?

2005-10-21 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, October 21, 2005, 4:27:20 AM, William wrote: WVH Pete, WVH I know that with Sniffer we have the ability to delete certain rulesets, but WVH would it be possible to add a custom rule for our server? Yes. snip/ WVH Unfortunately, it does NOT work. I have tried numerous WVH

Re[4]: [sniffer] Large amounts of spam still getting through

2005-10-15 Thread Pete McNeil
On Saturday, October 15, 2005, 12:33:47 PM, Rick wrote: RH My only concern is that all of this was being caught by Sniffer before and RH all of a sudden very little of it is being caught. We are told that they are RH working on it to get it fixed but we are getting slammed by customers RH telling

Re: [sniffer] False Postive Processing more automation?

2005-10-15 Thread Pete McNeil
On Saturday, October 15, 2005, 3:51:22 PM, Scott wrote: When I submit false positives to Sniffer about half come back rule clean. I then have to go to the logs and pull out those messages and resubmit the false positives with the log lines. I believe I am FTPing up my log files to

Re[4]: [sniffer] POP Approach

2005-10-14 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, October 14, 2005, 9:39:33 AM, Rick wrote: RH What is going on with the sniffer not catching any of the spam that is now RH coming through? We are getting slammed with medication, mortgage and other RH junk email? Your license has expired. Please send a note to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to

Re: [sniffer] Large amounts of spam still getting through

2005-10-14 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, October 14, 2005, 10:59:05 AM, Chuck wrote: CS We are seeing a lot of the drug spam getting through. Anyway that sniffer CS could start catching these. And yes I am forwarding them all. There are a number of new campaigns launched today with some heavy bandwidth behind them. We have

Re[4]: [sniffer] POP Approach

2005-10-14 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, October 14, 2005, 11:18:18 AM, Daniel wrote: DB Hello Pete, DB Are you going to implement something similar for false positives? No. The false positive process is very interactive, so each case is handled individually until it is resolved. This works best as it is currently

Re: [sniffer] Sniffer Speed Issue

2005-10-13 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, October 13, 2005, 12:15:23 PM, Orillia wrote: OPA Hi everyone. Background. Running IMail 8.15HF2, Declude 1.82 and sniffer. OPA Using P4, 512MB RAM with about 400 thousand messages a day. The employee who OPA used to manage this has left the company and I am now the owner and

Re: [sniffer] POP Approach

2005-10-13 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, October 12, 2005, 5:03:44 PM, support wrote: s Dear Pete, s Are we ready to switch to the POP method of submitting spam, or are we s waiting for an official announcement/instructions from you? Anyone can switch to this method at any time. Our current policy is to ask anyone who

Re[2]: [sniffer] POP Approach

2005-10-13 Thread Pete McNeil
waiting for an official announcement/instructions from you? Mike Stein Computer House - Original Message - From: Pete McNeil [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Darin Cox sniffer@SortMonster.com Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 9:16 AM Subject: Re[2]: [sniffer] Spam keeps getting through

Re[2]: [sniffer] POP Approach

2005-10-13 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, October 12, 2005, 6:30:45 PM, William wrote: WVH Pete, WVH Was just wondering, I have all of my e-mail pass through an IMGate/Postfix WVH machine prior to hitting my main mail server. Sometimes, e-mail (especially WVH spam) gets forwarded from the secondary MX as well. If we use

Re[2]: [sniffer] Sniffer TMP files

2005-10-11 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, October 10, 2005, 11:46:36 PM, support wrote: s Dear Pete, s We had to reinstall Imail, and now I am not seeing any more TMP files in the s spool folder. Everything seems to be working OK, but I miss those sweet s little TMP files. Should I be concerned? What may have changed?

Re[2]: [sniffer] Spam keeps getting through...

2005-10-11 Thread Pete McNeil
forward them? KR Pete McNeil wrote: On Monday, October 10, 2005, 7:55:51 PM, Serge wrote: S just to make sure, can we now send several spams as attachements in one S email S ans what adress to use S i have 3 that got thru my own mailbox in less than 3 hours S they did not even get tagged

Re[2]: [sniffer] Spam keeps getting through...

2005-10-11 Thread Pete McNeil
forward them regularly or do we need to change anything about how the headers display when we forward them? Pete McNeil wrote: On Monday, October 10, 2005, 7:55:51 PM, Serge wrote: S just to make sure, can we now send several spams as attachements in one S email S ans what adress

Re[2]: [sniffer] Spam keeps getting through...

2005-10-11 Thread Pete McNeil
right-click on the message, Save As... an .eml file, and then attach KR that .eml file to the message I'm sending to you? KR And is this true for spam as well - do they need to forward them to me KR and then me to you? KR Just making sure I'm doing this right. KR Thanks KR Pete McNeil wrote

Re[6]: [sniffer] License id nspjnfcl

2005-10-11 Thread Pete McNeil
in the logs. GC Regards GC Gulu GC -Original Message- GC From: Pete McNeil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GC Sent: 27 September 2005 11:47 GC To: Gulu Chanrai GC Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GC Subject: Re[4]: License id nspjnfcl GC Hmmm. GC You might try to a whitelist entry in your global.cfg file

Re[6]: [sniffer] License id nspjnfcl

2005-10-11 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, October 11, 2005, 7:53:03 AM, Gulu wrote: GC Hi Pete, GC We have started forwarding spam to the mailbox. Are your robots pulling the GC emails? As I don't see any activity in the logs. Just to follow up... Reading [EMAIL PROTECTED] X The above is a line from a recent Trap Bot

Re[7]: [sniffer] License id nspjnfcl

2005-10-11 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, October 11, 2005, 9:42:59 AM, Pete wrote: PM On Tuesday, October 11, 2005, 7:53:03 AM, Gulu wrote: GC Hi Pete, GC We have started forwarding spam to the mailbox. Are your robots pulling the GC emails? As I don't see any activity in the logs. PM Just to follow up... Sorry, this was

Re: [sniffer] Fwd: Updated Rackspace Ticket #051010-1794

2005-10-11 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, October 11, 2005, 10:20:19 AM, Stephen wrote: First, re: the ERROR_RULE_AUTH condition, did you correct the typo I identified from your screen shot? Second, when you do use FTP (which is not done by the auto update script) you do not need to change directories. In any case, you

Re: [sniffer] Spam keeps getting through...

2005-10-10 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, October 10, 2005, 5:44:21 PM, Chuck wrote: CS Sniffer is not catching a wave of spam (drug offers) this has been going on CS for over a week and I have been forwarding examples. Is there anything that CS can be done? I strongly suspect you are talking about the druglist spam and it's

Re: [sniffer] Spam keeps getting through...

2005-10-10 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, October 10, 2005, 5:44:21 PM, Chuck wrote: CS Sniffer is not catching a wave of spam (drug offers) this has been going on CS for over a week and I have been forwarding examples. Is there anything that CS can be done? Short additional follow up... Attached please find a graph of the

Re[2]: [sniffer] Spam keeps getting through...

2005-10-10 Thread Pete McNeil
spams as attachements in one S email S ans what adress to use S i have 3 that got thru my own mailbox in less than 3 hours S they did not even get tagged, only failed sorbs and sorbs_dul S - Original Message - S From: Pete McNeil [EMAIL PROTECTED] S To: Chuck Schick sniffer@SortMonster.com S

Re[2]: [sniffer] Spam keeps getting through...

2005-10-10 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, October 10, 2005, 7:55:51 PM, Serge wrote: S just to make sure, can we now send several spams as attachements in one S email S ans what adress to use S i have 3 that got thru my own mailbox in less than 3 hours S they did not even get tagged, only failed sorbs and sorbs_dul oops.

[sniffer] New virus...

2005-10-05 Thread Pete McNeil
to temporarily block .zip files - or at least this particular zip file until the new rules can be pushed out and the virus scanners catch up. Thanks, _M Pete McNeil (Madscientist) President, MicroNeil Research Corporation Chief SortMonster (www.sortmonster.com) Chief Scientist (www.armresearch.com

Re[2]: [sniffer] Dead List ?

2005-10-04 Thread Pete McNeil
Just very quiet. Still here :-) _M On Monday, October 3, 2005, 9:22:41 PM, Lists wrote: LS Good its not just me. No I haven't gotten a message until yours since LS 9/23 either! LS Maintain, LS Babul LS (210) 696-1130, ext. 102 LS (210) 696-0572 [fax] LS Text Pager Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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