Custom URI phishing rule

2008-12-23 Thread Ned Slider
Hi List, I've noticed a lot of phishing spam tries to obfuscate the URI with the following form: http://www.mybank.com.phish.cn and I've been thinking about trying to write a generic rule to detect this approach. I haven't had much success yet for dot com's, but UK domains seem pretty

Re: Preconfigured Spamassassin image/setup ?

2008-12-23 Thread Michael Scheidell
You looking for something commercial? If you are running vmware you could look at the VIR version of our product. http://www.secnap.com/products/spammertrap/ there is a virtual version of the 150 user and 500 user product available. there might be some free vmware builds elsewhere, you could

Re: sa-update damages existing SA installation

2008-12-23 Thread Mike Bird
Karsten Bräckelmann-2 wrote: Daily is fine, cause it means a single DNS request only most of the time. Updates of the stock rules however usually are less frequent than once a week. DNS seems to have been reporting 709395 as current for about eight weeks now, and a lot of very obvious spam is

Blacklisting IPs from HTTP hacker?

2008-12-23 Thread Marc Perkel
Just a thought on blacklists. Has anyone tried mining the IP data from HTTP servers that use modsecurity? I'm wondering if the same computers that are spamming blogs are also spamming with email? Would this be a new way to catch spammers?

Re: Blacklisting IPs from HTTP hacker?

2008-12-23 Thread mouss
Marc Perkel a écrit : Just a thought on blacklists. Has anyone tried mining the IP data from HTTP servers that use modsecurity? I'm wondering if the same computers that are spamming blogs are also spamming with email? Would this be a new way to catch spammers? I have checked many times to

Rules for porn spam from Yahoo/live.com etc

2008-12-23 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
I have one particular user being hammered by porn spam from freemail accounts, mostly Yahoo and live.com . These are getting by existing rules, including 70_sare_adult_cf . The messages typically have a on-topic, suggestive Subject: line. The body is a URL (google groups or other), and two

Re: Rules for porn spam from Yahoo/live.com etc

2008-12-23 Thread Michael Scheidell
I have one particular user being hammered by porn spam from freemail accounts, mostly Yahoo and live.com . These are getting by existing rules, including 70_sare_adult_cf . The messages typically have a on-topic, suggestive Subject: line. The body is a URL (google groups or other), and

Re: Rules for porn spam from Yahoo/live.com etc

2008-12-23 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 15:42 -0500, Christopher X. Candreva wrote: I have one particular user being hammered by porn spam from freemail accounts, mostly Yahoo and live.com . These are getting by existing rules, including 70_sare_adult_cf . You may find this following approach. Its aim is to

Re: sa-update damages existing SA installation

2008-12-23 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
On 22/12/2008 12:11 PM, Rosenbaum, Larry M. wrote: From: Daryl C. W. O'Shea [mailto:spamassas...@dostech.ca] Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 2:48 AM On 19/12/2008 5:40 AM, Marcin Krol wrote: Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: do it all at once. See my SARE sa-update page for details:

Re: sa-update damages existing SA installation

2008-12-23 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
On 23/12/2008 11:18 AM, Mike Bird wrote: Karsten Bräckelmann-2 wrote: Daily is fine, cause it means a single DNS request only most of the time. Updates of the stock rules however usually are less frequent than once a week. DNS seems to have been reporting 709395 as current for about eight

Re: sa-update damages existing SA installation

2008-12-23 Thread Henrik K
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 08:18:50AM -0800, Mike Bird wrote: Karsten Bräckelmann-2 wrote: Daily is fine, cause it means a single DNS request only most of the time. Updates of the stock rules however usually are less frequent than once a week. DNS seems to have been reporting 709395 as