What is the general concensus about using sniffer and declude together? Thanks, Andy
---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "R. Scott Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 12:50:25 -0400 >In April, we started to go through our spamtraps (E-mail addresses designed >to collect spam), to find out which spam tests were most effective at >catching spam. The results this month are based on over 11,000 spams that >were received, all in September, 2002. In September, our spamtraps >received 10% more spam than in August (August was 15% more spam than July, >and July was about 15% higher than June). > >The following is a list of tests that we run against the E-mails arriving >at the spamtrap, and what percentage of the spam they caught (it will be >easier to read if you use a fixed-width font): > > >WEIGHT10 96.51% >WEIGHT20 89.04% >SNIFFER 85.29% >SPAMCOP 69.38% >XBL 50.80% >MAILDEFLECTOR 48.37% >SPAMHEADERS 42.46% >REVDNS 42.18% >MONKEYPROXIES 35.93% >NJABL 31.56% >HELO 30.56% >HEUR10 29.00% >BADHEADERS 24.83% >DSBLALL 24.71% >NOPOSTMASTER 24.64% >POSTFIXGATE 24.30% >NOABUSE 22.33% >DSBL 22.26% >DORKZTL 21.47% >OSSRC 20.65% >OSPROXY 19.27% >OSRELAY 15.66% >HEUR9 15.20% >ORDB 14.59% >DNSRBL-SPAM 14.26% >BLARSBL 13.91% >SPAMHAUS 13.74% >KUNDENSERVER 13.37% >ROUTING 12.83% >RSL 12.58% >BLITZEDALL 11.48% >IPWHOIS 11.47% >BADWHOIS 10.81% >DORKS 9.76% >HEUR8 8.51% >OSSOFT 8.10% >BLITZEDHTTP 7.92% >DEVNULL 7.21% >BASE64 4.76% >DNSRBL-DUN 4.59% >BLITZEDSOCKS 4.54% >DSBLMULTI 3.15% >DSN 2.70% >FABELSOURCES 2.61% >DELINK 1.96% >MAILFROM 1.64% >KITHRUP 1.49% >COMPU 1.48% >NJABLDUL 1.33% >DORKRELAYS 1.00% >PIGS 0.89% >OSDUL 0.68% >MONKEYFORMMAIL 0.35% >BLITZEDWINGATE 0.31% >DNSUCE 0.22% >OSSMART 0.01% > > >The WEIGHT10 and WEIGHT20 tests are just a weighting system that assigns a >weight to each E-mail, based on the spam tests that fail, so they don't >really count as spam tests by themselves (although they do catch the most >spam). > >The two best tests by far are SNIFFER ( http://www.sortmonster.com ) at >85.29% and SPAMCOP ( http://www.spamcop.net ) at 69.38% (although SPAMCOP >has gone down since last month, when it caught 75.16% of the spam). > >More information on most of the various spam tests shown above can be found >at http://www.declude.com/junkmail/support/ip4r.htm . You can look up an >IP address using the Spam Database Lookup tool at http://www.DNSstuff.com >. The most recent 20 spams in our spamtraps, and the tests they failed, >can be found at http://www.declude.com/spamtrap.htm . > > -Scott >--- >Declude: Anti-virus, Anti-spam and Anti-hijacking solutions for >IMail. http://www.declude.com > >--- >[This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] > > >To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ >Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
