RE: [sniffer] When to go persistent

2006-02-23 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Goran, I'd be interested in Pete's technical answer, too. The practical answer is that you should always go with the persistent instance of Message Sniffer. From reading Pete's previous screeds and monitoring the list here in the last year and from having my own troubles, it's pretty clear to me

RE: [sniffer] When to go persistent

2006-02-23 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
nd see how my system reacts. > > Goran Jovanovic > Omega Network Solutions > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Behalf Of Colbeck, Andrew > > Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 11:39 AM > > To: sniffe

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

2006-02-24 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Goran, When you issue a reload you can tell that the new rulebase is being used because the *.svr file's date and time will change to the current time. Andrew 8) > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Goran Jovanovic > Sent: Friday, F

RE: [sniffer] Sniffer, MDLP, and invURIBL?

2006-02-25 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Joe,   Are you using MDLP to autotune your weights in Declude?  If so, you can exclude invURIBL and other tests which you don't want to change, whether because you think the weight is perfect, or because their randomness doesn't fit MDLP's idea of a weighting system.   Check out this snippet

RE: Re[2]: [sniffer] New Rulebot F001

2006-03-06 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Pete, One of these was EarthLink [207.217.120.227], and one of these was Google Mail [64.233.166.182]. SpamBag lists the EarthLink address as a source of bogus bounces, and I posit that this would be the source of the mail to the spamtraps that would trigger the F001 bot. I would like to state t

RE: [sniffer] Bad Rule Alert: 963461 follow up.

2006-04-18 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Thanks, Pete! For what it's worth, the rule 963461 hit 647 times here, and after putting in the Rule Panic entries, stopping and starting my persistent sniffer, and then re-queuing my messages held with this rule hit, 216 of the messages were still deemed spam and were held by Declude (and maybe M

Re: [sniffer]Ebay Phishing Emails getting through

2006-05-17 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
> 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. I've just manually submitted the ~35 messages that my filters triggered on for phishing that d

Re: [sniffer]Possible Paypal Phishing

2006-05-24 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
It's really from PostDirect.com aka YesMail.com ... You can tell that it's authorized because the reverse DNS which ends in PayPal.com (ok, that does set off alarm bells when it's someone else's netblock) matches the forward lookup of the resulting address at PayPal. Therefore, PayPal is delibera

Re: [sniffer]Possible Paypal Phishing

2006-05-24 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
> customer, they could easily set rDNS to whatever they wanted. > Aol.com, paypal.com, ebay.com, chase.com ... > > -Jay > -Original Message- > From: Message Sniffer Community > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colbeck, Andrew > Sent: Wednesday, May

Re: [sniffer]Possible Paypal Phishing

2006-05-24 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
oint are > the Paypal DNS servers queried? > > John T > eServices For You > > "Seek, and ye shall find!" > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > Behalf > Of > > Colbeck,

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

2006-06-06 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
David, Are you using the free version of sniffer? Or did you deliberately change your .exe name in your posting to sniffer.exe to hide your licence number? I certainly expect that the rulebase lag with the free version will result in lower Message Sniffer hit rates. I've seen the free version

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

2006-06-06 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
I use just shy of 60 DNS based tests against the sender, both IP4R and RHSBL. Perhaps 10-12 matter. Due to false positives, I rate most of them relatively low and have built up their weights as a balancing act. That act is greatly assisted by using a weighting system and not "reject on first hit

Re: [sniffer]Numeric spam

2006-06-06 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
> So no one has any idea what the purpose of these emails are?   The bad guys aren't telling.  The good guys have lots of theories, such as:   http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1384   and also:   http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/archive-062006.html#0894   which in turn points

Re: [sniffer]Numeric spam

2006-06-06 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Both of which are reasonable, particularly given the recent Blue Security debacle that showed that it was possible for the spammers as well as the spammees to coordinate their information.  It might be in a spammer's best interest to pursue either of your suggestions.   However, I still thin

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

2006-06-07 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Right... quotes are no good.  That came to light in the context of passing long file names (with spaces); the 8.3 format would be preferred.   I've designed my folder structure such that none of the folders had spaces in them; that just happened to be the way it turned out and I'm glad I stu

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

2006-06-07 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
(sniff) Aw, cut it out, Matt.   You're making me all weepy.   p.s. Pete, that's pretty darned amazing!   From: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MattSent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 3:58 PMTo: Message Sniffer CommunitySubject: Re: [sniffer]Re[2]: [

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

2006-06-08 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Ditto. I advise people to use Insert, Item. Far easier than explaining how to drag and drop (or tie shoelaces). I've noticed that whether the headers survive when they are sent to another Exchange+Outlook company are a crap shoot. Generally speaking, if the message is handled by Outlook, it's n

[sniffer] Numeric spam source has been revealed

2006-06-09 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
It was broken code in the latest Bagel/Beagle: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.beagle.fc.ht ml Andrew 8) # This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe,

[sniffer] Re: Weight Gate Success? Failure?

2006-06-13 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Pete, I plan to use it or something similar in non-production once I set up a new test system. A quick test with a batch file worked fine. Although I'm no programmer, I have reviewed the source and saw no obvious logical problems or coding flaws. Rigorous testing on the command line showed that

[sniffer] Re: Weight Gate Success? Failure?

2006-06-13 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
That's good news, Bill. Can I be the first to point out that in your example, you're still calling ShowMe.exe and not WeightGate.exe so you will be appending to c:\ShowMe.log with every call? And for those new to the party, I'll explain that what Bill is doing with his modified configuration is t

[sniffer] Re: Update pacing...

2006-06-19 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Harry, there is a "standard" script that Bill Landry shepherded into being. Check out the info at the Message Sniffer Wiki here: http://kb.armresearch.com/index.php?title=Message_Sniffer.TechnicalDetai ls.AutoUpdates The description of what a good download script should do is there, plus a zip f

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

2006-06-22 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
FWIW I take the belt and suspenders approach.   The rulebase notification by email does trigger a Message Sniffer update script on my system, but I don't rely on it solely.  In addition, I also use an "at" schedule every four hours.   As in Markus' (and Bill's) sample, I use the -N parameter

[sniffer] My rulebase download and log upload script

2006-07-07 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
The last thing before I leave for the weekend... I finally got around to updating my download/upload script so that I can upload compressed logs. In the course of doing that, I found that my upgraded version of wget has changed its behaviour; as of the 1.10.x series, if you specify -O to specify

[sniffer] Re: Lots of drug spam getting through

2006-08-21 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Would that be the "Laugh" in the subject line pharmaceutical spam campaign? That was mentioned by Dave Doherty on the Declude.JunkMail mailing list, and when I checked my logs I found many hundreds with clear variations on the keywords in the text, e.g. there is a joke about lawyers and they are u

[sniffer] Re: Paypal failing SNIFFER-GENERAL

2006-08-23 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Column 7 is the one that contains the rule that was hit. In this case, it was 1100444. Column 8 is the one that contains the group. In this case, it was 60 "Ungrouped Black Rules" (Sniffer General). Andrew 8) > -Original Message- > From: Message Sniffer Community > [mailto:[EMAIL P

[sniffer] Re: Significant increase in false positives

2006-10-16 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
I'm attaching an old message to this list which may come in handy.  It's from my perspective, which is using Declude and IMail, with the spam messages in d:\imail\spool\spam and needing to be moved to d:\imail\spool to be re-scanned.  Now that I use a newer version of Declude, my paths are d

[sniffer] Re: yahoo mail problems

2006-10-17 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
I had a similar problem with Hotmail once upon a time; the details were different, but the remedy was the same.   I run a caching DNS server on my outbound DNS host, so I simply added a DNS zone for Yahoo.com on it, and populated only enough MX record information so that I could reliably get

[sniffer] Re: Version 2-3.5 Release -- Faster Engine

2006-10-23 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
That's good news, Pete. And with the WeightGate executable and source thrown in at no extra charge! Andrew 8) > -Original Message- > From: Message Sniffer Community > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pete McNeil > Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 9:26 AM > To: Message Sniffer Com

[sniffer] Re: Increase in spam

2006-10-25 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
For another organization's graph of spam trends as received by them, check out the updated graphs at TQM cubed: http://tqmcube.com/tide.php Their graph shows a sharp uptick at the end of June 2006. Andrew 8) > -Original Message- > From: Message Sniffer Community > [mailto:[EMAIL PROT

[sniffer] Re: Yahoo! Is Retarded

2006-10-26 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
I like your new sig, John.   How's this for an addendum?   "Experience is that which you acquire, just after you needed it."     Andrew 8)   From: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John T (Lists)Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 8:13 AMTo: Message

[sniffer] Zombie message volume

2006-11-07 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
This diary entry over at the Internet Storm Center points to an increased volume of traffic from probable zombies, and they posit that the increase in this traffic would coincide with the spam increase that people are seeing. http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1828 Their graph shows a sharp ra

[sniffer] Re: Configuring Sniffer in declude....

2006-11-30 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
> If you don't mind, does WeightGate add any noticeable > CPU cycles to run on top of running Sniffer? Thanks for the aid. On a 100,000 emails per day on a 2.8 GHz Xeon, no, it doesn't. Andrew 8) > -Original Message- > From: Message Sniffer Community > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

[sniffer] Re: Sniffer White List

2006-12-12 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Serge, what return value are you using for this snifferwhitelist? The official and current list of return codes is here: http://kb.armresearch.com/index.php?title=Message_Sniffer.TechnicalDetai ls.ResultCodes If you're using "0", then don't do that, because zero is also used for "no result". Ac

[sniffer] Re: Triggered rulebase update script

2006-12-12 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Harry, you change your email notifications by sending an email to the support@ address and requesting it. The Wiki has documentation for setting up the automatic download based on these notifications here, for Ipswitch IMail: http://kb.armresearch.com/index.php?title=Message_Sniffer.TechnicalDeta

[sniffer] Re: Pictures worth a few words...

2007-01-16 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Postini posts some statistics here, but their conclusions can lag by months: http://www.postini.com/stats/index.php "global spam traffic" is a big concept... Postini did however process over 650 million messages in the last 24 hours. Andrew. > -Original Message- > From: Message Sniffer

[sniffer] Re: Files in Sniffer Directory

2007-03-08 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
> Would it be a good idea in a future version to delete files > that are older than a certain date automatically? I disagree. Having MessageSniffer delete the old files would hide the problem. With the messages left behind, you have a valuable symptom that something is wrong with your infrastru

[sniffer] Re: SPAM Storm?

2007-03-19 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
... Not in my neck of the network. Andrew. > -Original Message- > From: Message Sniffer Community > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Computer House Support > Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 3:19 PM > To: Message Sniffer Community > Subject: [sniffer] Re: SPAM Storm? > > Is it me,

[sniffer] Re: Bad rule alert - minor, but notable...

2007-05-01 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Thanks for the heads up, Pete. I use MessageSniffer as part of a weighting system with Declude. I had 69 total hits on Monday and Tuesday for these two rule IDs. Of those I had: 27 being Deleted as very spammy 4 being Passed as very hammy 31 total not held Of the 38 that were held,

[sniffer] Re: Downloads are not working....

2007-05-17 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
My last upload averaged a lame 6 KB/s. My last download varied widely in the speed obtained: 0K .. .. .. .. .. 17.85 KB/s 50K .. .. .. .. ..9.58 KB/s 100K .. .. .. .. ...

[sniffer] Re: Downloads are not working....

2007-05-17 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Thanks for the update, Pete. Over on the Declude JunkMail support mailing list, it's like déjà vu all over again. Andrew 8) p.s. For the many of us here that don't subscribe to that list... The small number of recently active messages have been re-queued to the list several times. > -

[sniffer] Spam zombies too busy DDoS'ing to send spam?

2007-06-08 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Hey, Pete! Here's Steve Linford's posting about the most-recent Denial of Service against SpamHaus: http://groups.google.ch/group/news.admin.net-abuse.email/msg/28d49877cc8 dbc2d Meanwhile, the SARE and URIBL seem to be responsive now while suffering under the same campaign, but their website

[sniffer] Spammers turning to PDF attachments?

2007-06-21 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
See this article at the Internet Storm Center: http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=3012 Pump and dump scams now in PDF Published: 2007-06-20, Last Updated: 2007-06-20 21:33:39 UTC by Maarten Van Horenbeeck (Version: 1) Apparently the groups behind what we know as pump and dump spam have foun

[sniffer] Re: Bad Rule: 1604021

2007-10-16 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Thanks for reporting this, Pete! My numbers were more extreme than Pi-Web's. That bad rule triggered on 18,023 messages yesterday. Due to the rest of my spam software, two-thirds were either passed (as presumed ham) or deleted (as very spammy). So the one-third that was held, I re-scanned toda

[sniffer] Re: Beta

2007-10-17 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Pete, one of the questions I had right away when I looked at the documentation accompanying the software package was about the communication channel. The documentation clearly pointed out that ports 25 is the default and that 80 is selectable, but didn't go further. I just answered my own question

[sniffer] Re: Sniffer codes

2007-11-09 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
The Ugly value returned by the beta Message Sniffer you're using with the "Good, Bad and Ugly" database has a result code of 40, and this code is missing from your list. (The White value overlaps with result code 0, which internally to Message Sniffer will mask any other "spam" result code on you

[sniffer] Re: No email updates.

2007-11-21 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
For what it's worth, it is working for my two licences. I received email update notifications at: 90 minutes ago 3 18 minutes ago 4 38 minutes ago 6 hours 13 minutes ago Andrew 8) > -Original Message- > From: Message Sniffer Community > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frederi

[sniffer] Re: Rule Database copy question

2008-01-16 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
It appears that both the "reload" and the "rotate" options in the sniffer executable are still accepted by SNFClient.exe but are deprecated, as neither parameter appears in the help or in the contextual help when SNFClient.exe is run without parameters. Andrew. _

[sniffer] Re: Rule Database copy question

2008-01-16 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Thanks for the response, Pete! I was using both parameters in my scheduled pattern download script, which would tell Sniffer that there was a new pattern, and would rotate the logs before uploading them back to you. With the new (beta) version, both extras have become redundant, so I've removed

[sniffer] Re: Ideal config for scaleable solution?

2008-02-22 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Paul, since you're working in a Windows world, check out Alligate from alligate.com as a Windows platform based email gateway. I've put Alligate in front of my Declude setup and it drastically reduced the number of emails I had scan for content and sender in Declude, and gained back a lot of disk

[sniffer] Re: XYNTService -- Any Problems?

2008-05-09 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
I've never used it, Pete. My first reaction was... don't go to a third party (XYNTService, SrvAny, FireDaemon) just make the executable a full fledged Windows Service. I do realize that you'd be reluctant to do that given the additional complexity of the code, none of which is portable to the *ni

[sniffer] Re: Test

2008-05-26 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
pong ... From: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John T Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 9:08 AM To: Message Sniffer Community Subject: [sniffer] Test Ping Testing as I have not received any list messages for a while. John T eService

[sniffer] Re: Spam no using CAPTCHA!

2008-06-11 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
... 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. Andrew. -Original Message- From: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pete McNeil Sent: Wednesday

[sniffer] Re: Bad rule alert: 1940812

2008-06-17 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Pete, if we have a significant number of hits, they'll be from all kinds of IP sources. Should we dump the GBUdb? If so, how? The documentation is perfectly clear on how to tweak an IP or dump an IP in the GBUdb, but doesn't mention a wholesale clearing of it. Andrew. -Original Message-

[sniffer] Re: Bad rule alert: 1940812

2008-06-17 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Thanks, Pete. I had very few actual hits; I have lots of lines that indicate the rule panic in place, but the number of actual hits is quite small. How I found my hits: cd /d C:\MessageSniffer gawk "($6 == \"Final\") && ($7 == 1940812)" *.20080617.log Andrew. -Original Message- Fr

[sniffer] Re: Bad rule alert: 1940812

2008-06-17 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Thanks, Pete. I had four actual false positives on one server, versus 324 unique hits for the bad rule. So yes, I'd say that the autopanic feature worked quite well. Andrew. -Original Message- From: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pete McNeil Sent: Tu

[sniffer] Re: It's official. SNF Version 3.0 is Ready!

2008-06-26 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Congratulations on shipping, Pete! Andrew 8) p.s. Hey, I love the new mascot. Much cuter than the old SortMonster... -Original Message- From: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pete McNeil Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 12:24 PM To: Message Sniffer Commun

[sniffer] Re: Problem with Sniffer-Porn rule this morning

2008-07-18 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
I also have hit this. A single hit, also from AOL. Andrew. From: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darin Cox Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 6:37 AM To: Message Sniffer Community Subject: [sniffer] Problem with Sniffer-Porn rule th

[sniffer] Re: Problem with Sniffer-Porn rule this morning

2008-07-18 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
m: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colbeck, Andrew Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 8:31 AM To: Message Sniffer Community Subject: [sniffer] Re: Problem with Sniffer-Porn rule this morning I also have hit this. A single hit, also from AOL.

[sniffer] Re: Message Sniffer question

2009-04-30 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
It works for me. Thanks, Pete! I used the documentation here: http://www.armresearch.com/support/articles/software/snfServer/config/au toUpdates.jsp I wanted a simplified system that more closely reflected what the vendor ships, so I've stopped using my home-grown wget based script which was

[sniffer] overriding the GBUdb

2009-04-30 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
I recently used snfclient.exe to "whitelist" the IP address (actually a whole /24) of a mailing list manager that my users deem to be trustworthy. snfclient.exe -set 64.62.197.53 good - - You might argue the merits of this IP address, but that's not why I'm writing... I deliberately left alon

[sniffer] Re: overriding the GBUdb

2009-04-30 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Sniffer Community [mailto:snif...@sortmonster.com] On Behalf Of Pete McNeil Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 1:14 PM To: Message Sniffer Community Subject: [sniffer] Re: overriding the GBUdb Colbeck, Andrew wrote: I recently used snfclient.exe to "whitelist" the IP address (actuall

[sniffer] Re: Bad rule: 2524136

2009-06-18 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Thanks for the heads-up, Pete. For what it's worth, I had a hit on only one message on each of my gateways, from different senders. The "Sniffer General" result code wasn't weighted high enough on my Declude system to hold either message because they came from senders with "clean" implementations

[sniffer] Re: curl couldn't connect to host

2009-07-06 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Checking my logs, I see two failures with subsequent retries which were successful after 10 minutes and 13 minutes respectively. That's far better than my previous bespoke script! Mon 07/06/2009 0:27:45.64 getRulebase.cmd called by SNFServer.exe due to presence of UpdateReady.txt file Mon 07/0

[sniffer] Re: SNFMilter released and a few other updates...

2009-07-29 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Niiice, Pete. Andrew 8) -Original Message- From: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:snif...@sortmonster.com] On Behalf Of Pete McNeil Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 2:51 PM To: Message Sniffer Community Subject: [sniffer] SNFMilter released and a few other updates... Hello Sniffer

[sniffer] Re: RulePanic on 2654821

2009-09-08 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
The scores over here for the messages that trigger on rule 2654821 today: spam that hit the rule: 4 ... and were porn: 0 ham that was held by my weight system: 5 ham that was allowed by my weight system: 3 subsequent panic log lines: 139 Thanks for the heads up, Darin. I was able to re-queue

[sniffer] Re: Bad rule alert: 2784910

2009-11-26 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
All clear here, Pete. Thanks for both of the notices, Andrew. -Original Message- From: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:snif...@sortmonster.com] On Behalf Of Pete McNeil Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2009 8:45 AM To: Message Sniffer Community Subject: [sniffer] Bad rule alert: 2784910

[sniffer] Re: RulePanic on 3059196

2010-04-06 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
For what it is worth, there are zero hits on my two servers for this Rule. I looked back through the last 7 days. Andrew. -Original Message- From: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:snif...@sortmonster.com] On Behalf Of Darin Cox Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 9:48 AM To: Message Sniffe

[sniffer] Re: Volume spike Mon 9AM EST

2010-05-10 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
I'm not seeing any spike in inbound connections or accepted message counts. Actually, it's lower than Friday's volume and about the same as Thursday. Andrew. -Original Message- From: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:snif...@sortmonster.com] On Behalf Of Peer-to-Peer (Support) Sent: Mo

[sniffer] Re: Opening truncate.gbudb.net

2010-05-10 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
I looked at the effectiveness of this test and I like what I'm seeing. The volume isn't high, but it is making a difference in the "edge cases" that are close to my "hold weight". In particular, I'm finding that it is triggering on pump and dump DKIM spam from fresh netblocks that would otherwise

[sniffer] Re: Opening truncate.gbudb.net

2010-05-10 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
reasonable, that the text could look like this: "GBUdb Cloud Truncate c > 0.2, p > 0.9 for [205.188.84.131]" I'll send the whole header to support@ in case you are interested in this particular IP. Andrew. -Original Message- From: Message Sniffer Community [mailt

[sniffer] Re: Rule Panic on 3364665

2010-08-17 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
I have seen one hit, and it looks like a false positive to me. Sent as a sample to the false@ address. Thanks for the heads-up, Darin. Andrew. From: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:snif...@sortmonster.com] On Behalf Of Darin Cox Sent: Tuesday, August 17,

[sniffer] So, another botnet bites the dust.

2011-03-18 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Pete, now that Microsoft has taken down the Rustock botnet, what's your telemetry say about spam volumes? Any significant change? http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2011/03/18/taking-down -botnets-microsoft-and-the-rustock-botnet.aspx http://krebsonsecurity.com/2011/03/rustock-bo

[sniffer] Re: Change in default settings

2011-05-09 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Pete, for sample on-off='on' I wrote myself this note... ... Is it still valid? Your sample and my own configuration have: passthrough=no On the balance of it, I suspect my own note is wrong, so it would be nice if you could verify it one way or the other. Andrew. -Original Message---

[sniffer] Re: Change in default settings

2011-05-09 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
On Behalf Of Pete McNeil Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 3:05 PM To: Message Sniffer Community Subject: [sniffer] Re: Change in default settings On 5/9/2011 4:53 PM, Colbeck, Andrew wrote: > Pete, for > > sample on-off='on' > > I wrote myself this note... > > > &g

[sniffer] Nice job, sortmonsters!

2011-08-08 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Time to thwart a spam run from a fresh IP address: less than 18 minutes. The first three emails from: 216.223.207.0/25 were allowed past MessageSniffer but fewer than 18 minutes into the spam run, the content triggers rule group 60, rule id 4224795. (It is coupon spam, but probably fake affiliate

[sniffer] Training GBUdb on the client IP for telus.net

2011-10-24 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Given the attached header text, would this snippet in snf_engine.xml help me to train GBUdb on the email clients' IP address from this specific ISP? I tested by querying: SNFClient.exe -test 216.218.29.230 And then re-testing the spam, and then querying GBUdb again. The second test showed that "

[sniffer] Re: Training GBUdb on the client IP for telus.net

2011-10-24 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
ginal Message- From: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:sniffer@sortmonster.com] On Behalf Of Colbeck, Andrew Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 11:47 AM To: Message Sniffer Community Subject: [sniffer] Training GBUdb on the client IP for telus.net Given the attached header text, would this snipp

[sniffer] Training GBUdb on the client IP for aol.com

2011-10-24 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Another test, this time to update the X-AOL-IP: header, which in my last few false-negatives have the standard X-Originating-IP: header ... I don't know if AOL has deprecated the X-AOL-IP: header or whether it is used under different client circumstances. Thanks, Andrew. Received: from

[sniffer] Re: Training GBUdb on the client IP for telus.net

2011-10-24 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
sage Sniffer Community Subject: [sniffer] Re: Training GBUdb on the client IP for telus.net On 10/24/2011 3:20 PM, Colbeck, Andrew wrote: >

[sniffer] Re: Training GBUdb on the client IP for aol.com

2011-10-24 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
: Message Sniffer Community Subject: [sniffer] Re: Training GBUdb on the client IP for aol.com On 10/24/2011 3:21 PM, Colbeck, Andrew wrote: > As far as I know that one still works. _M -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist ARM Resea

[sniffer] Re: Training GBUdb on the client IP for aol.com

2011-10-24 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Message Sniffer Community [mailto:sniffer@sortmonster.com] On Behalf Of Pete McNeil Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 1:01 PM To: Message Sniffer Community Subject: [sniffer] Re: Training GBUdb on the client IP for aol.com On 10/24/2011 3:47 PM, Colbeck, Andrew wrote: > r='4432448&#x

[sniffer] Ok, I'm the 3rd person to ever report the Bad Matrix error on this mailing list

2012-01-09 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
>From SNFclient.exe.err I saw these errors repeated for every message processed: 20120107155711, arg1=C:\IMail\spool\proc\work\D016759002.smd : Could Not Connect! The srvany.exe was running, but the SNFserver.exe wasn't, or wasn't healthy. Each SNFclient.exe had to read the .gbx file itself a

[sniffer] Re: FPs on Sniffer-Schemes

2012-03-12 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
My two cents: I saw zero hits for this rule. I count myself lucky, because we see a lot of purchase order emails and of course, the fake P.O. scams too. Andrew. From: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:sniffer@sortmonster.com] On Behalf Of Pete McNeil Sent:

[sniffer] Creeping higher on those rule numbers

2012-06-21 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Via the GnuWin32 tools on my Windows server: C:\MessageSniffer>grep -P "Match\t" munged.2012062?.log | cut -f7 | usort | uniq -c | usort -k2 -n -r 2>nul | head 2 4991501 8 4991483 8 4991462 8 4991459 8 4991457 8 4991456 8 4991446 6 4991286 3 49

[sniffer] Re: Creeping higher on those rule numbers

2012-06-26 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
9 5000187 2 5000186 1 5000170 3 4999799 1 4999618 6 4999419 1 4999415 4 4999088 Andrew 8) -Original Message- From: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:sniffer@sortmonster.com] On Behalf Of Colbeck, Andrew Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 9:15 AM To:

[sniffer] How fast is *my* MessageSniffer? (was: IP Change on rulebase delivery system)

2013-03-28 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Answer: pretty darn fast for a system that I think is slow anyway I think my MTA is a busy system, and I know that it's not MessageSniffer that keeps the server busy. A glance with Task Manager or Process Explorer shows very little CPU time is spent by MessageSniffer. I threw some grepping

[sniffer] Re: What is your oldest production CPU?

2013-12-28 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
A modern Xeon dual core, also within VMware: PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=x86 PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=x86 Family 6 Model 37 Stepping 1, GenuineIntel The oldest virtualized CPU is: PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=x86 PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=x86 Family 6 Model 13 Stepping 7, GenuineIntel Both identify as Xeon E5xxx m

[sniffer] You have to have a sense of humour

2004-10-07 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Title: Message A member of my company with an important title complains about mail being slow, and that her business associates can't reach her.  It goes up the corporate ladder until it peaks and comes much further down to my level.   The problem?  A single email from a "Golf Channel" partn

RE: Re[2]: [sniffer] Version 2-3.0i8 published.

2004-10-20 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
If I might butt in ... If you fire up Task Manager on a windows machine (or your favourite ps tool elsewhere), and set the View, Update Speed to High, then sort by the name in reverse, you will see multiple sniffer.exe and one with a PID that doesn't change. That's your persistent instance. What

RE: Re[2]: [sniffer] Version 2-3.0i8 published.

2004-10-20 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Whups, I missed out an important "NOT" in the second-to-last paragraph. Corrected version is below: -Original Message----- From: Colbeck, Andrew Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 10:29 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Re[2]: [sniffer] Version 2-3.0i8 published.

RE: [sniffer] Version 2-3.0i8 published.

2004-10-20 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Exactly, Michiel. And Jorge, it may be stating the obvious, but you may well have to check the tickbox at the bottom of Task Manager to "Show processes from all users". I said sniffer.exe merely as an example, the actual executable will be [your licence here].exe or snfrv2r3.exe if you're using t

RE: [sniffer] Integrating Sniffer with new Imail Collaboration Suite

2004-10-27 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Well, to play devil's advocate ... A poor man's way to run IMail and Message Sniffer without Declude could certainly be done without a massive re-write. I'm not going to claim that it would be *reliable* or *flexible* but you could certainly mimic what Declude does and change one registry key to

RE: [sniffer] Rulebase download script

2004-10-30 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Title: Message Bill, you the man!   I was just polishing my own script based on comments made by you and Bonno at the end of the week!  My modest efforts are attached as a .txt file.   A few comments from my own efforts:   The wget compress option to save me and Pete some bandwidth isn't w

RE: [sniffer] LogRotate no longer working?

2004-10-31 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Andy, I just ran into this. You have to issue: snfrv2r3.exe rotate or snfrv2r3.exe [authcode] rotate I found that it fails if I didn't have the ".exe" specified. Andrew 8) -Original Message- From: Andy Schmidt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 6:19 PM To: [EM

RE: [sniffer] LogRotate no longer working?

2004-10-31 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Oh, yeah. I had two problems. The other was that I was running "tail" on the log file, and it wouldn't rotate, ending with an errorlevel = 63. Andrew 8) -Original Message- From: Andy Schmidt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 6:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

RE: [sniffer] Rulebase download script

2004-10-31 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
uncompressed rulebase files are about 14mb, but compress down to just under 4mb before the download.  I am use using GNU Wget 1.9.1, so you might try this version or see if there is an updated version of the wget that you are using.   Bill -Original Message-F

RE: [sniffer] LogRotate no longer working?

2004-10-31 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
e it for a day, you can slow your mail server down by letting sniffer append new log lines to an ever-growing 800+ MB text file! Andrew ;) -Original Message----- From: Colbeck, Andrew Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 6:27 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [sniffer] LogRotate no

RE: Re[2]: [sniffer] LogRotate no longer working?

2004-10-31 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
executable from the download archive. I think that covers it. Happy to help! Andrew 8) -Original Message- From: Pete McNeil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 8:24 PM To: Colbeck, Andrew Subject: Re[2]: [sniffer] LogRotate no longer working? On Sunday, October 31

RE: [sniffer] Persistent Server setup with SrvAny Resource Kit tool

2004-10-31 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Somewhere at the beginning of this was, I think, Andy's mention of starting the executable in persistent mode. When I was manually playing with that, I also didn't want a COMMAND window cluttering my desktop. So I used: start /B LicenseID.exe authcode persistent and put that in a batch file

RE: Re[6]: [sniffer] New Version 2-3.2 has been officially released.

2004-11-24 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Two days for Thanksgiving?! American turkeys must have much more tryptophan than Canadian turkeys if you need an extra day to sleep it off. p.s. More favourite acronyms: RGE (Resume Generating Event) TLA (Three Letter Acronym) Andrew 8) -Original Message- From: Pete McNeil [mailto:[EMA

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