Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Large amount of hotmail, msn, aol, yahoo and other free account blacklisted servers

2010-12-06 Thread Pete McNeil

On 12/6/2010 4:22 PM, Scott Fisher wrote:

-Pete

Can I use


for the AOL header:
X-AOL-IP: 213.55.79.58


Yes...

What you've got there essentially says this:

If the first (ordinal 0) received header contains the string "aol.com [" 
then look for the header X-AOL-IP: and read the source IP for the 
message from that header.


Once the engine believes that's the source IP for the message then that 
IP will be scored for the message. If that IP is generating spam through 
aol (in this case) then that IP's statistics will move toward the black 
range and be scored accordingly. Other IPs sending messages through that 
system will be scored on their own merits.


_M

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RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Large amount of hotmail, msn, aol, yahoo and other free account blacklisted servers

2010-12-06 Thread Scott Fisher
-Pete

Can I use


for the AOL header:
X-AOL-IP: 213.55.79.58



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McNeil
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Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Large amount of hotmail, msn, aol, yahoo and
other free account blacklisted servers


On 12/6/2010 2:47 PM, Colbeck, Andrew wrote:
> I have the same position as Scott.
>
> I find that the MessageSniffer product from ARM Research is the most
reliable test



> Hotmail in particular would be less effective for the bad guys if I had an
antispam tool that would determine from the headers that the sender was from
Hotmail (or others) and then check the
>
> X-Originating-IP: [111.222.333.444]



> I've suggested it before but vendors are, quite reasonably, leery of
building into their product a feature that is specific to a few providers
while being prone to false positives.

Actually, if I may, Message Sniffer has precisely that feature built 
into GBUdb training.

Specifically, you can tell Message Sniffer to identify the source IP for 
the message based on the presence of a specific header. This feature was 
designed specifically for hotmail and other systems that provide a 
source IP for one reason or another -- (perhaps complex internal routing).

For configuration information see:

http://www.armresearch.com/support/articles/software/snfServer/config/node/g
budb/training/source.jsp
http://www.armresearch.com/support/articles/software/snfServer/config/node/g
budb/training/source-header.jsp

If you configure this training mechanism for GBUdb in your Message 
Sniffer engine then GBUdb will become much more accurate for messages 
coming through that source.

Best,

_M


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MicroNeil Research Corporation
www.microneil.com
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RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Large amount of hotmail, msn, aol, yahoo and other free account blacklisted servers

2010-12-06 Thread Scott Fisher
I made this change immediately. Like Andrew I've always wondered why the
Hotmail header hasn't been targeted by someone.

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From: supp...@declude.com [mailto:supp...@declude.com] On Behalf Of Pete
McNeil
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 2:31 PM
To: declude.junkmail@declude.com
Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Large amount of hotmail, msn, aol, yahoo and
other free account blacklisted servers


On 12/6/2010 2:47 PM, Colbeck, Andrew wrote:
> I have the same position as Scott.
>
> I find that the MessageSniffer product from ARM Research is the most
reliable test



> Hotmail in particular would be less effective for the bad guys if I had an
antispam tool that would determine from the headers that the sender was from
Hotmail (or others) and then check the
>
> X-Originating-IP: [111.222.333.444]



> I've suggested it before but vendors are, quite reasonably, leery of
building into their product a feature that is specific to a few providers
while being prone to false positives.

Actually, if I may, Message Sniffer has precisely that feature built 
into GBUdb training.

Specifically, you can tell Message Sniffer to identify the source IP for 
the message based on the presence of a specific header. This feature was 
designed specifically for hotmail and other systems that provide a 
source IP for one reason or another -- (perhaps complex internal routing).

For configuration information see:

http://www.armresearch.com/support/articles/software/snfServer/config/node/g
budb/training/source.jsp
http://www.armresearch.com/support/articles/software/snfServer/config/node/g
budb/training/source-header.jsp

If you configure this training mechanism for GBUdb in your Message 
Sniffer engine then GBUdb will become much more accurate for messages 
coming through that source.

Best,

_M


-- 
Pete McNeil, President
MicroNeil Research Corporation
www.microneil.com
703.779.4909
x7010




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Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Large amount of hotmail, msn, aol, yahoo and other free account blacklisted servers

2010-12-06 Thread Pete McNeil

On 12/6/2010 2:47 PM, Colbeck, Andrew wrote:

I have the same position as Scott.

I find that the MessageSniffer product from ARM Research is the most reliable 
test





Hotmail in particular would be less effective for the bad guys if I had an 
antispam tool that would determine from the headers that the sender was from 
Hotmail (or others) and then check the

X-Originating-IP: [111.222.333.444]





I've suggested it before but vendors are, quite reasonably, leery of building 
into their product a feature that is specific to a few providers while being 
prone to false positives.


Actually, if I may, Message Sniffer has precisely that feature built 
into GBUdb training.


Specifically, you can tell Message Sniffer to identify the source IP for 
the message based on the presence of a specific header. This feature was 
designed specifically for hotmail and other systems that provide a 
source IP for one reason or another -- (perhaps complex internal routing).


For configuration information see:

http://www.armresearch.com/support/articles/software/snfServer/config/node/gbudb/training/source.jsp
http://www.armresearch.com/support/articles/software/snfServer/config/node/gbudb/training/source-header.jsp

If you configure this training mechanism for GBUdb in your Message 
Sniffer engine then GBUdb will become much more accurate for messages 
coming through that source.


Best,

_M


--
Pete McNeil, President
MicroNeil Research Corporation
www.microneil.com
703.779.4909
x7010




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RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Large amount of hotmail, msn, aol, yahoo and other free account blacklisted servers

2010-12-06 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
I have the same position as Scott. 

I find that the MessageSniffer product from ARM Research is the most reliable 
test at catching spam from freemail accounts. Second best is a URI product, but 
much of the spam from freemail accounts is scam text that doesn't have a URL, 
or the spammer obfuscates it by not describing the domain rather than 
specifying it e.g. he will write example.com instead of 
http://www.example.com/marketing (I just fabricated this example).

Hotmail in particular would be less effective for the bad guys if I had an 
antispam tool that would determine from the headers that the sender was from 
Hotmail (or others) and then check the

X-Originating-IP: [111.222.333.444]

Header they add, which is invariably a source address I'd block because it's 
listed in XBL or other "DYNA" blacklists.

I've suggested it before but vendors are, quite reasonably, leery of building 
into their product a feature that is specific to a few providers while being 
prone to false positives.

 
Andrew from Vancouver


-Original Message-
From: supp...@declude.com [mailto:supp...@declude.com] On Behalf Of Scott Fisher
Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 8:38 AM
To: declude.junkmail@declude.com
Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Large amount of hotmail, msn, aol, yahoo and 
other free account blacklisted servers


 
My problem is the reverse, I get so much spam from hacked
aol/hotmail/gmail/yahoo accounts, that its getting to the point that these
services are spammers. I hope some more places blacklist them so that maybe
they'll clean up their act. Like that would happen...

Unfortunately a disproportionate amount of my email spam administration time
is spent solely on these free providers trying to fine tune the filters to
block the spam, without much collateral damage.


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From: supp...@declude.com [mailto:supp...@declude.com] On Behalf Of David
Barker
Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 8:39 AM
To: declude.junkmail@declude.com
Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Large amount of hotmail, msn, aol, yahoo and
other free account blacklisted servers


You can also my filters GOOD-REVDNS and HAM-INDICATOR as well as
ISP-HOTMAIL, ISP-YAHOO etc which are available from the Declude website.
These can help reduce false positives.

David Barker
VP Operations Declude
Your Email security is our business
978.499.2933 office
978.988.1311 fax
dbar...@declude.com

 -Original Message-
From: supp...@declude.com [mailto:supp...@declude.com] On Behalf Of Gary
Steiner
Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 9:17 AM
To: declude.junkmail@declude.com
Subject: re: [Declude.JunkMail] Large amount of hotmail, msn, aol, yahoo and
other free account blacklisted servers

Try using the following whitelists:

http://www.abuses.es/eswl/index.html.en

http://www.dnswl.org/

Both are fairly reliable.



 Original Message 
> From: "Chris Patterson" 
> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 10:01 PM
> To: "declude.junkmail@declude.com" 
> Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] Large amount of hotmail, msn, aol, yahoo and 
other free account blacklisted servers
> 
> We have been seeing a dramatic increase of free webmail server IP's being 
blacklisted and causing false positives from the usual Hotmail, msn, yahoo, 
aol, gmail, and other free email servers listed on RBL', spamcop, spamhaus, 
etc.
> 
> This has caused a tendency to for customers to want to whitelist these 
domains which we do have on per domain/per user settings however still must 
be explained and applied.
> 
> I can provide hundreds of these blacklisted IP's in the logs however  I 
was hoping a number of you have developed a list of reverse DNS IP or 
hostname entry files to subtract from sniffer and/or UR-IBL scoring that 
will allow the good emails through from blacklisted IPs or some ruleset 
that has the same effect.
> 
> This has become a very annoying issue for us, any help/ideas would be 
appreciated. 
> 
> 
> Chris Patterson, CCNA
> Special Projects and Advanced Engineering Manager
> Rapid Systems
> http://www.rapidsys.com
> KB:  http://support.rapidsys.com
> 
> 




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