Re: [SLUG] Unwanted ads
I used to use T'bird, till it became overwhelmed in spam. It's training couldn't keep up with the different varieties of spam, so I changed over to sylpheed-claws as it had a plugin for SpamaAssassin. Well, this I couldn't not get SA plugin working well, so I went back to first principles and used fetchmail, procmail and pointed Sylpheed to the Mail folder. And it works really well too! Its caught spam sent to lists, inc slug, and last night it even filtered out a Amazon phish!. Outstanding! I doubt very much T'bird could catch as the phish SA found was a ISP address reported to be send spam. The take home message, is it just works. I wrote myself a howto, and its here: http://home.exetel.com.au/randombits/linux/linux.html HTH - Russell On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 16:44:39 +1100 john gibbons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Via email, Matthew. Just got another half dozen. Sometimes exactly the same advt repeated 3 or 4 times. John. Matthew Hannigan wrote: On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 08:05:02AM +1100, john gibbons wrote: Some swine marketing viagra and associated products sends me several advts each day.It is the only advertiser to get to me via Firefox being run in Fedora 4. His advts vary at times and claim to come from different sources and are programmed to vary some content via random ommissions of letters in words, different home addresses, etc. However, the similarities are strong enough to suggest a single source. Firefox recognises most of them as junk but misses on others. I identify all of them as junk and immediately delete them. Is there some way I can block them from even arriving in the first place? I'm confused; is this in email or from websites or out of nowhere? (!) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Unwanted ads
Some swine marketing viagra and associated products sends me several advts each day.It is the only advertiser to get to me via Firefox being run in Fedora 4. His advts vary at times and claim to come from different sources and are programmed to vary some content via random ommissions of letters in words, different home addresses, etc. However, the similarities are strong enough to suggest a single source. Firefox recognises most of them as junk but misses on others. I identify all of them as junk and immediately delete them. Is there some way I can block them from even arriving in the first place? John. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Unwanted ads
On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 08:05:02 +1100 john gibbons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some swine marketing viagra and associated products sends me several advts each day.It is the only advertiser to get to me via Firefox being run in Fedora 4. His advts vary at times and claim to come from different sources and are programmed to vary some content via random ommissions of letters in words, different home addresses, etc. However, the similarities are strong enough to suggest a single source. Firefox recognises most of them as junk but misses on others. I identify all of them as junk and immediately delete them. Is there some way I can block them from even arriving in the first place? John. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html Can recommend the full spamassassin / pyzor/ razor/dcc package. I put it on my laptop last Sunday, and it works a treat. It reads the headers and content and refers to a server(s) to check if the email has been reported as spam. Once a day crontab runs a script to retrain Spamassassin for the missed emails. Its reduced spam to about 5-10%. I have noticed if the spam is resent the next day, it is caught. HTH - Russell -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Unwanted ads
On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 08:05:02AM +1100, john gibbons wrote: Some swine marketing viagra and associated products sends me several advts each day.It is the only advertiser to get to me via Firefox being run in Fedora 4. His advts vary at times and claim to come from different sources and are programmed to vary some content via random ommissions of letters in words, different home addresses, etc. However, the similarities are strong enough to suggest a single source. Firefox recognises most of them as junk but misses on others. I identify all of them as junk and immediately delete them. Is there some way I can block them from even arriving in the first place? I'm confused; is this in email or from websites or out of nowhere? (!) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Unwanted ads
I think he means spam like this (i get them alot also)... w C n i g a n I r i t s $9 l 9 (1 4R 0 b p z i v l q l k s c ) b V d a p I t i e u v m $10 c 5 (30 1N m p n i y l g l r s d ) u V q i k a d g g r h a $6 b 9 ( 5t 10 l p g i w l j l s s i ) Many tO other, V fL isit our s 6A ite http://##.com and S 2Z ave o h1 ver 50 Im % I get them also, (mind you I havent set up spamassasin on my server as yet).. But they get through many spam-filter due to their 'clever' rewording. I would think if its coming from the same IP or IP range just block that in your ipfilter or something similar..?? On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 08:05:02AM +1100, john gibbons wrote: Some swine marketing viagra and associated products sends me several advts each day.It is the only advertiser to get to me via Firefox being run in Fedora 4. His advts vary at times and claim to come from different sources and are programmed to vary some content via random ommissions of letters in words, different home addresses, etc. However, the similarities are strong enough to suggest a single source. Firefox recognises most of them as junk but misses on others. I identify all of them as junk and immediately delete them. Is there some way I can block them from even arriving in the first place? I'm confused; is this in email or from websites or out of nowhere? (!) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Unwanted ads
On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 10:59:44AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think he means spam like this (i get them alot also)... Well yeah, I get hundreds per day. But firefox? Webmail? Or Thunderbird perhaps? Not trying to be pedantic; trying to make sure he hasn't got some sort of malware firefox toolbar. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Unwanted ads
Ahh yeah good call.. I didnt think of that. On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 10:59:44AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think he means spam like this (i get them alot also)... Well yeah, I get hundreds per day. But firefox? Webmail? Or Thunderbird perhaps? Not trying to be pedantic; trying to make sure he hasn't got some sort of malware firefox toolbar. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Unwanted ads
Via email, Matthew. Just got another half dozen. Sometimes exactly the same advt repeated 3 or 4 times. John. Matthew Hannigan wrote: On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 08:05:02AM +1100, john gibbons wrote: Some swine marketing viagra and associated products sends me several advts each day.It is the only advertiser to get to me via Firefox being run in Fedora 4. His advts vary at times and claim to come from different sources and are programmed to vary some content via random ommissions of letters in words, different home addresses, etc. However, the similarities are strong enough to suggest a single source. Firefox recognises most of them as junk but misses on others. I identify all of them as junk and immediately delete them. Is there some way I can block them from even arriving in the first place? I'm confused; is this in email or from websites or out of nowhere? (!) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Unwanted ads
Careless of me: yes, Thunderbird. John. Matthew Hannigan wrote: On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 10:59:44AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think he means spam like this (i get them alot also)... Well yeah, I get hundreds per day. But firefox? Webmail? Or Thunderbird perhaps? Not trying to be pedantic; trying to make sure he hasn't got some sort of malware firefox toolbar. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
