[sniffer] Re: Spam no using CAPTCHA!

2008-06-11 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Daniel, Wednesday, June 11, 2008, 9:19:47 AM, you wrote: Hi Everyone, I just sent a spam sample to Message Sniffer, that was using CAPTCHA, it said CIALIS in the CAPTCHA. I'm curios to see what Pete thinks of this new tactic? On first look it is simply another way to use an

[sniffer] Re: Spam no using CAPTCHA!

2008-06-11 Thread Greg Coffey
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pete McNeil Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 8:18 AM To: Message Sniffer Community Subject: [sniffer] Re: Spam no using CAPTCHA! Hello Daniel, Wednesday, June 11, 2008, 9:19:47 AM, you wrote: Hi Everyone, I just sent a spam sample to Message Sniffer, that was using

[sniffer] Re: Spam no using CAPTCHA!

2008-06-11 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Andrew, Wednesday, June 11, 2008, 11:48:55 AM, you wrote: ... and it also means that OCR based spam filtering is succesful enough for the spammers to adopt CAPTCHA-style text-obfuscation-in-images as an evasion method. Possibly, but I wouldn't put too fine a point on it. It's very easy

[sniffer] Re: Spam

2007-05-30 Thread Darin Cox
seconds per message. Darin. - Original Message - From: Bonno Bloksma To: Message Sniffer Community Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 2:09 AM Subject: [sniffer] Re: Spam Hi, I recommend SpamSource, if you are an Outlook user. It's a little toolbar applet that you can configure any

[sniffer] Re: Spam

2007-05-29 Thread Andy Schmidt
Subject: [sniffer] Re: Spam Long time in getting back to you about this but: preferably to a spam collection pop3 box on your system I am happy to send it to a box called [EMAIL PROTECTED] password sort!231#6eh will you arange for your bot to collect ? When I send spam to [EMAIL PROTECTED

[sniffer] Re: Spam

2007-05-29 Thread Alberto Santoni
Schmidt Sent: 29 May 2007 23:39 To: Message Sniffer Community Subject: [sniffer] Re: Spam I recommend SpamSource, if you are an Outlook user. It's a little toolbar applet that you can configure any recipient of the forwarded spam and it will include all the original mail headers - just the way

[sniffer] Re: Spam

2007-05-29 Thread David Moore
Subject: [sniffer] Re: Spam I recommend SpamSource, if you are an Outlook user. It's a little toolbar applet that you can configure any recipient of the forwarded spam and it will include all the original mail headers - just the way Sniffer, Spamcop etc. like it. All you do is press the button

[sniffer] Re: Spam

2007-05-14 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello David, Monday, May 14, 2007, 2:59:16 AM, you wrote: Do not send spam to the sniffer@ list. Submit un-captured spam to [EMAIL PROTECTED], or preferably to a spam collection pop3 box on your system that can be picked up by our bots. Thanks! _M

[sniffer] Re: Spam

2007-05-14 Thread Chuck Schick
PM To: Message Sniffer Community Subject: [sniffer] Re: Spam Hello Chuck, We are working on a sequence of very aggressive campaigns that started today. They started about 8 hours ago and haven't stopped. We are catching up though. Looks like the blackhats decided to start the week early. _M

[sniffer] Re: Spam

2007-05-14 Thread Alberto Santoni
Yes I agree also here we are having a real storm !!! Alberto -Original Message- From: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chuck Schick Sent: 14 May 2007 16:46 To: Message Sniffer Community Subject: [sniffer] Re: Spam Pete: It appears that you guys

[sniffer] Re: Spam

2007-05-13 Thread Rick Hogue
We are seeing the same thing. Started about a week and a half ago. Rick Hogue 502-649-3431 Cell Is your association working on the web? http://www.samprogram.com -Original Message- From: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chuck Schick Sent: Sunday, May

[sniffer] Re: Spam

2007-05-13 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Chuck, We are working on a sequence of very aggressive campaigns that started today. They started about 8 hours ago and haven't stopped. We are catching up though. Looks like the blackhats decided to start the week early. _M Sunday, May 13, 2007, 1:05:45 PM, you wrote: We are seeing a

[sniffer] Re: Spam

2007-05-13 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Rick, About that time they started serveral new campaigns using what appears to be a new version of message obfuscating bot software along with several new sources for stuffing. Volumes and leakage have been up since then. Today's activity is a new, much stronger burst of the same activity

[sniffer] Re: Spam Storm

2007-05-08 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Jorge, Tuesday, May 8, 2007, 1:30:24 PM, you wrote: Has anybody notices any new spam storms out there? Since yesterday, about 10 times the normal spam get's through (normally 2-3 messages a day, now it's like 2-3 messages per hour). Sniffer returns 0 (clean) for all of them,

[sniffer] Re: Spam Storm

2007-05-08 Thread Jorge Asch
I think it's something else. Most message are different in content, and are not 100% spam. I guess your POP bot has been retrieving them from my system (I've reported them all). There is an aggressive new image spam campaign that started about 30 hours ago. This one has a continuously

[sniffer] Re: SPAM Storm?

2007-03-19 Thread Computer House Support
Is it me, or is there an unbelievable spam storm going on this afternoon?? # 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

[sniffer] Re: SPAM Storm?

2007-03-19 Thread greg
Seems like a normal day to me. Not much getting though but I checked the server logs and they are average sized for the day. At 04:19 PM 3/19/2007, you wrote: Is it me, or is there an unbelievable spam storm going on this afternoon??

[sniffer] Re: SPAM Storm?

2007-03-19 Thread K Mitchell
At 06:19 PM 3/19/2007 -0400, Computer House Support wrote: Is it me, or is there an unbelievable spam storm going on this afternoon?? We got a fairly heavy burst this afternoon originating from an APNIC 210.x.x.x block. -- Kirk Mitchell-General Manager[EMAIL PROTECTED] Keystone

[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: SPAM Problems

2006-10-23 Thread David Waller
Filippo, We had a similar problem. Due to the huge volumes of spam we found our mail server becoming less able to deal with email. Imail/Declude/Sniffer is expensive in processor terms when processing email and we found the best was to pre-process mail filtering using Greylisting (we used Vamsoft

[sniffer] Re: SPAM Problems

2006-10-23 Thread Technical Support
: [sniffer] Re: SPAM Problems Filippo, We had a similar problem. Due to the huge volumes of spam we found our mail server becoming less able to deal with email. Imail/Declude/Sniffer is expensive in processor terms when processing email and we found the best was to pre-process mail filtering using

[sniffer] Re: SPAM Problems

2006-10-23 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Filippo, Monday, October 23, 2006, 5:18:02 AM, you wrote: Hello Pete, since friday our mail server is overwhelmed by a very lot of spam messages. Because of this the spool of my IMail Server gets full and it actually get stuck. Do you have any hint that can help me to fix this

[sniffer] Re: SPAM Problems

2006-10-23 Thread Filippo Palmili
Hello Pete, witch file (Global.cfg, Virus.cfg) have the AVAFTERJM option? I'm using Declude 2.06.16 with IMail Server 8.05 Filippo At 14:45 23/10/2006, you wrote: Hello Filippo, Monday, October 23, 2006, 5:18:02 AM, you wrote: Hello Pete, since friday our mail server is overwhelmed by a very

[sniffer] Re: SPAM Problems

2006-10-23 Thread David Waller
for further info. Hope this helps. David -Original Message- From: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Technical Support Sent: 23 October 2006 13:10 To: Message Sniffer Community Subject: [sniffer] Re: SPAM Problems David, What sort of database does OFR use adn do

[sniffer] Re: SPAM Problems

2006-10-23 Thread Technical Support
/ Declude investment, this arrangement can do the trick. Paul Fuhrmeister [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Waller Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 5:15 AM To: Message Sniffer Community Subject: [sniffer] Re: SPAM

[sniffer] Re: SPAM Problems

2006-10-23 Thread Dave Marchette
Of Technical Support Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 7:28 AM To: Message Sniffer Community Subject: [sniffer] Re: SPAM Problems We also use ORF by VamSoft on IIS to pre-process. We do not use the grey listing. We tried it, and it is great at eliminating spam, but it can delay mail for hours, which