RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Citibank - phishing- still live

2004-10-05 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
TrendMicro also catches some phishing attempts: http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default2.asp?m=q&virus=citifrau d&alt=citifraud But I've no idea what exactly their triggering on. If it's a body URL, their release updates are probably too far apart, but their CPR (Controlled Pattern

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: IP block tool

2004-09-30 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
I heavily depend on: http://openrbl.org Which lists dnsstuff and moenstad as similar services. For the last year, they've been subject to on-again off-again Denial of Service attacks, and now have many regional mirrors, and they've recently introduced a timeout on the first lookup submission, pr

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] New Bagle W32/Bagle.az@MM

2004-09-28 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Title: Message Trend calls it something else and claims that it is 13 hours old.  We haven't seen any copies yet.   http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=WORM_BAGLE.AM   Andrew 8) -Original Message-From: Don Hickey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] 100 Point scale / DNS

2004-09-28 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Title: Message That should be 512 bytes in the UDP packet, and only in the reply.  Another good tip is to tell your firewall that DNS over TCP is fine.    Usually if this is turned off, it is to prevent bad actors from doing a "zone transfer" to scoop up all of your DNS hosts so that they c

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Stop one IP address

2004-09-27 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Title: Message Whups, yeah, what John said.   Andrew 8) -Original Message-From: John Tolmachoff (Lists) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 11:40 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Stop one IP address Andrew and Goran,

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Stop one IP address

2004-09-27 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Title: Message You can hide the problem by going into your IMail configuration under SMTP, then the SMTP Security tab and adding the IP address to the IMail Kill File.  When IMail sees a connection from that IP, it drops it, without returning an error to the sender, and without logging the a

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] I G R E E T I N G S (from Kate)

2004-09-24 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Title: Message http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/friendgreetings.html   Friend Greetings is the classic "greeting card virus", back in 2002.  There were hoaxes previous to that.   Andrew 8) -Original Message-From: Sharyn Schmidt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Idea

2004-09-20 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Kevin, I suspect that you're right, and that 99.9% of the time, your rule would hold true. I would suggest that the IP address in the HELO would have to match the reverse DNS exactly, though. I also think that it this observation would also hold true if the HELO is an IP address and there is no r

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] SPF 2.0 ?

2004-09-20 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Andy, Microsoft certainly is an important player. I just wish that they would stick to the standards that everyone else does. In order to get mail to them in an orderly fashion, I need to use a static copy of their DNS record in the DNS server on my mailserver, that I've cooked to know only about

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] SPF 2.0 ?

2004-09-20 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Bill, I think the matter of the licensing and potential patent problems with SPF are limiting factors only for the Open Source movement's software development, as it affects developers, not implementors. As we see with the Apache Software Foundations' letter to the MARID group, they won't put supp

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Question about END operation

2004-09-20 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Putting my two cents in ... I also would rather have both options. I would choose the keywords: ABORT (same as END, and deprecate use of END as a keyword) STOP (end processing with the accumulated weight, and the test status status as having triggered, as requested by Matthew Bramble

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Incoming message

2004-08-25 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Title: Message Ok, so who's the list member which is infected by the NetSky virus???  From:   stmary-1-306.atm-cip.trvnet.net [64.71.64.38]   AS: 64.71.64.0/19 AS14814 Twin Rivers Valley Internet Serv Livermore/Iowa   The virus is being sent to the list and to the list members.   Andrew.

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Urgent script help needed

2004-08-20 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Script schmipt!! Use the Explorer Find/Search tool, look at only *.eml files and search the body for the name of the domain that you're interested in. I don't have any applications that use the .eml format, but I'm sure that each message is a single file, unlike the Q*.smd + D*.smd files that IMa

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Changing the HELO string on an Exchan ge Server

2004-08-19 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Yes, Brad, the correct thing for him to do is to change the HELO greeting. Here are the instructions for Exchange Server 2000, which I think will be close enough for you. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;266686 Scroll down to the section: "How to Change the Fully Qualifie

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Useful external test?

2004-08-16 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
The "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" has been around for a long time. Legitimate mailers (and others) use the format to encode very specific information about their target, presumably so that they can effectively determine the email address when a complaint is made or the sender receives a bounce. I rarely get

[Declude.JunkMail] Hostile email

2004-08-12 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Title: Message Not a virus, spam combined with social engineering combined with a malware installation attempt.   We've received spam from this dynamic IP in Brazil:   200-153-121-39.customer.tdatabrasil.net.br [200.153.121.39]   Which was HTML formatted with the message:   "Hey...haven't t

[Declude.JunkMail] Another PayPal phishing URL

2004-08-11 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Dear PayPal User, We regret to inform you but due to recent suspicious activity regarding your account we are forced to ask you to verify your identity for security purposes. In order to continue using your PayPal account normally and avoid any account restrictions please provide us with your f

[Declude.JunkMail] New bagle variant spreading

2004-08-09 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
I submitted a copy to both McAfee and TrendMicro; McAfee already detects it as W32/Bagle.aq http://isc.sans.org/ Each copy I received had no subject line, and one word in the visible body text, "price". The virus was in a zip file, called price_new.zip and contained an HTML file called price.htm

[Declude.JunkMail] temporary restraining order against a Floridian spammer

2004-08-09 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Title: Message http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2004/07/creaghan.htmI like the part about freezing his assets, as he tried to move his finances to a bank in Latvia.Andrew 8)p.s.http://groups.google.ca/groups?q=%22Creaghan+A.+Harry%22+group:news.admin.net-abuse.*&hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&group=news.admi

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Spam tests

2004-08-04 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Definitely SpamAssassin. If you want these tests and more, check out the signature at the bottom of one of Sanford Whiteman's recent posts. Andrew 8) -Original Message- From: Scott MacLean [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 10:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

[Declude.JunkMail] There's no doom like MyDoom

2004-08-03 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Another week, another variant. http://isc.sans.org/ Judging from possible strings in the message body and subject, this virus uses a password protected zip (or pretends to), and pretends to be about security, possibly faking your own domain name, just like last week. I don't know what it's tryin

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] A burst of USBank fraud spam

2004-07-27 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
but I think the subject line randomization is bad software, or more deliberate antispam measures.  Only the spammer knows...   Andrew 8)   -----Original Message-From: Colbeck, Andrew Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 1:36 PMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] A bu

[Declude.JunkMail] A burst of USBank fraud spam

2004-07-27 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Title: Message The actual URL in the href is:   http://www.secureusbank.com/internetBanking/RequestRouter/requestCmdId/DisplayLoginPage/login.htm   The sending IP is: 140.116.177.114 which is apparently belongs to an educational institute in Taiwan.   Andrew 8)   Body text is as follows:     D

[Declude.JunkMail] Latest MyDoom active today

2004-07-26 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
>From http://isc.sans.org/ Handlers Diary July 26th 2004 Updated July 26th 2004 16:04 UTC (Handler: Johannes Ullrich) * latest MyDOOM search engine use Latest MyDoom search engine use (initial analysis. more details, and eventual corrections, will be posted as they become available) The lates

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] How can I rescan a message ?

2004-07-21 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Edit the Q.smd file so that your own addressee information is listed instead of the regular addressee. If it is delivered, it goes to your own mailbox instead of the original user. Then copy the Q.smd and and D.smd file into your C:\IMail\Spool folder and wait for your IMail to notice

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Spam now (should) fail tests, didn't when received.

2004-07-20 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Brad, several of the ip4r tests list whole subnets, and I've seen hits from IPs in that and similar subnets across the last week. More likely is that your DNS didn't respond in time when Declude inspected this particular message. Andrew. -Original Message- From: Brad Morgan [mailto:[EMAI

[Declude.JunkMail] Another way to skin broken BAGLE.AH

2004-07-20 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Brute force works well for this particular virus, because it has so few possibilities and doesn't use common enough attachment names for me to consider it any risk for false positives: #Jul-20-2004 AC broken BAGLE.AH and so forth BODY 0 CONTAINS filename="cat. BODY 0 CONTAINS filename="Cool_MP3. B

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Way OT: Comodo SSL Certs?

2004-07-18 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
It's perfectly legit, Dave. Go ahead and follow the instructions precisely. You don't expect your OS to ship with a perfect database of second-level or third level cert suppliers do you? And no, clients making an SSL connection to your new server won't need to jump through any special hoops at al

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: find command

2004-07-18 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Hey, Bill. You've got your thinking cap on too tight! > Find "@aol.com" \*\forward.ima >found.txt > > The idea is to search all subdirectories of the current director for > forward.ima and look to see if @aol.com is in there. fgrep -r -i -l "@aol.com" forward.ima *. fgrep instead of egrep means

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] SOT somewhat offtopic

2004-07-16 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Serge, POP and IMAP are certainly available in Exchange, but if I read this architecture correctly, what you client probably wants is the ETRN extension to SMTP. I used this once under Exchange 5.5 to fetch mail over dial up. Here's an ancient article on the subject to get you started on some bas

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Grep out letters

2004-07-16 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Hey, Scott. If you'd like, send me a sample off-list. I could use a short brain teaser this morning. The general idea I think would be to do a grep and only look for lines with well-formed IP addresses. e.g. egrep "[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}" sample.txt >result.txt [0-9] me

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Anywhere & Body

2004-07-14 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
The results would have been the same. Declude searches the whole message "raw", so the inside of attachments get scanned too. Using: ANYWHERE 1 CONTAINS spam is the same as using: HEADERS 1 CONTAINS spam BODY1 CONTAINS spam So, the ANYWHERE filter can save you a line, but may open you to

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Anywhere & Body

2004-07-14 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
No, the slashes have no special meaning. There is no regexp parsing in Declude, every search expression is a literal, but is case-insensitive. The most common item that arises as a result: You can't search for a term with a leading space, e.g. BODY 1 CONTAINS " spam" (remove the quotes). On the

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Filter reporting improvement idea

2004-07-14 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Dave, if you move your reporting level from MID to HIGH, you will see a log line for every hit in your filter files. Andrew 8) -Original Message- From: Dave Doherty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 7:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] Filter r

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Introduction & Preliminary Survey Results

2004-07-12 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Title: Message Thank you, Barry.   In addition to a community support channel, we've become accustomed to using this mailing list as a communications channel to and from Computerized Horizons.  You may miss out on the pulse of your customer base if are not a subscriber.   I'm sure we all a

[Declude.JunkMail] The glass is half full

2004-07-10 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Meh. I think most angles on this incident have been covered. Stuff was definitely done wrong, but with reasonable business goals behind Computing Horizon's thinking. Some of those didn't mesh well with the active 10-20 power users on the mailing list. For example, I'm sure that a GUI featured

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] IPBYPASS and WHITELIST IP

2004-07-08 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
;t use the DUHL tests! -Original Message- From: Colbeck, Andrew Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 6:19 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] IPBYPASS and WHITELIST IP John, let's say that you have a Postfix gateway in front of your IMail+Declude server. If y

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] IPBYPASS and WHITELIST IP

2004-07-08 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
John, let's say that you have a Postfix gateway in front of your IMail+Declude server. If you whitelist the gateway, then all mail from that server or passed through that server will be whitelisted. That would be *bad*. You would instead use IPBYPASS, so that all the IP based tests are not again

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: How to delete a mass of files on a Win dows drive

2004-07-07 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Well, I'm late to the party! I love Sandy's idea, it's a great way to "stem the tide". Matt, absolutely, the problem with the "dir" based delete commands is reading through the tree that NTFS creates, which on a busy disk will be literally all over the hard drive. This would then be complicated

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] SPACE character

2004-07-06 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
At the same volume level, I see thirty times more legitimate messages with a leading space in the subject message. Most are from users, with one to three leading spaces. Three different legitimate "news alerts" are using up to 6 leading spaces, presumably to make their subject line stand out in t

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Comcast zombies contained

2004-07-02 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Sorry, Matt! http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=16960 ... which seems to bear fruit. I've received exactly 4 zombie spams from the ComCast network since June 17, 2004, and my usual rate is tens to hundreds per day from them. Unfortunately, there's no indication that ComCast will take any furth

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Fake IP Test

2004-07-02 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Title: Message Todd, in addition to checking for your own IP address in the inbound mail HELO, another handy "anti-spoofing" test is to check for your own mailhost.   HEADERS 20 CONTAINS Received: from yourmailhost.yourdomain.com   because, hey, your mailserver is receiving this message, so

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] [Declude.Virus] OT- Anyone know about this latest "attack" reported by CNN?

2004-06-25 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Me three. I installed FireBird a long, long time ago at home. I had no problems, ever. But then I got the upgrade itch, so I'm on the latest FireFox now, with nifty extensions. And I cut the cord last weekend, by deleting all my Favorites out of IE (years and years worth!). Now I use IE for a

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] [Declude.Virus] OT- Anyone know about this latest "attack" reported by CNN?

2004-06-25 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Your webservers, sure. That's the easy part, the patch was available in early April. Your desktops, no, not if your users use Internet Explorer. There is no patch yet, and it's been exploited for at least 2 months. For a whitehat demonstration, use your fully patched IE to go to: http://62.131

[Declude.JunkMail] Spammers Using Spyware To Fool Users

2004-06-23 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Title: Message The executive summary: expect perfectly normal spam subject lines more often.       http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20040623S0007   Andrew 8)

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Find Command

2004-06-23 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
ilto:Declude.JunkMail- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colbeck, Andrew > Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 2:56 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Find Command > > Bill, you caught me red-handed. I was hoping you'd do the heavy lifting

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Find Command

2004-06-23 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Bill, you caught me red-handed. I was hoping you'd do the heavy lifting to offer up an awk equivalent template for findstr. Andrew 8) p.s. Goran, grep is your friend. Use fgrep as a straight substitute for find, but fgrep is a magnitude faster. Use egrep to do nifty things like Bill's "or" exa

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Find Command

2004-06-22 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Goran, check out the FindStr.exe command in your %windir%\system32 folder, it does exactly what you want. Specifically, you will keep appending your search strings as new lines in one text file, and search each line to include/exclude from your orig.txt If your needs are going to grow to only a fe

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Possible spammer trick with names

2004-06-16 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
e or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Colbeck, Andrew > Sent: Wednesday, Jun

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Possible spammer trick with names

2004-06-16 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
The odds are 100%, Keith. That's exactly how all the current viruses work. Recently, WORM_SOBER.* has also generated usernames at the domains it harvests to increase their hit rate, because they don't care about their failure rate or the massive number of NDRs that they generate. Andrew 8)

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Some declude.exe process do not end unless the server is rebooted

2004-06-15 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Declude.exe instances fire once for each email, they don't stay resident. Instead of rebooting the server, stop your IMail SMTP and Queue services so that no mail is being processed, which means declude.exe instances won't be run. Then you can do whatever maintenance you require, and restart the

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] USBank Scam?

2004-06-14 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Scam. You surmised correctly. The HTML snippet shows the reader one URL, but the real "target" of the link is somewhere else entirely. China, actually. Three great web resources to find out who a domain is or where it is: http://openrbl.org http://whois.sc http://www.senderbase.org Using "w

[Declude.JunkMail] A quick "heads up"

2004-06-08 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Title: Message This is from the SANS Handler's diary at http://isc.sans.org   ARIN in-addr.arpaA post on the NANOG list indicates that the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN, www.arin.net) is not providing reverse-lookup forwarding for any networks in the range 206.46.0.0 - 255.255

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Way off topic

2004-06-04 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
That's a great idea, Sandy. And I'll contribute a tiny hint and suggest that if anyone were to do so, using a sniffer like Ethereal with a capture filter would minimize the size of the actual data file collected, which would then make post-processing much simpler. Andrew 8) -Original Message

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT what a con

2004-06-03 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
ic The LAN Shoppe > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:Declude.JunkMail- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colbeck, Andrew > Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 12:09 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT what a con

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Detect "Test NOT Failed"

2004-05-31 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Title: Message fgrep "Total weight = " dec0531.log | fgrep -v "SNIFFER" | gawk "$NF >=20" >result.txt   sample contents of result.txt: 05/31/2004 00:01:44 Qd84b1ec600561d03 IPNOTINMX:2 HELOBOGUS:6 MAILFROM:9 REVDNS:4 CMDSPACE:5 COUNTRY:10 DSBL:6 SPAMCOP:3 SPAMCOP-DYNA:7 FIVETENSRC:2 FIVETE

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: GREP Help Needed

2004-05-31 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Title: Message Ah, the easy answer is that grep is not the way.  You want something a little higher up on the food chain, awk.   gawk "$4 == 2" netflow.txt   or the identical but clearer:   gawk "$4 == 2 {print $0}" netflow.txt   will parse the file called netflow.txt and only output the 

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Help - Gateway Question

2004-05-27 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Samantha, part of the answer that you're looking for is that when your misd.net server is connecting to their server to deliver the mail, you're not connecting to "Trend Micro, the company", you're connecting to their mail server, which has a Trend Micro product in front of their other mail host, w

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Spammers Dumping Porn for Financial Servic es

2004-05-26 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Title: Message I've definitely noticed in the last 2 weeks that pump and dump stock scams have been the lead type of spam that leaks through.  And also that pharmaceutical spam has far eclipsed pornography.  In my Hotmail account, it's about even.   And I suppose that this is news to someon

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Hotmail not accept inbound mail?

2004-05-21 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
ew day ago - does acknowledge the problem and said they are working on it. I had to tell my server to retry for a day before I could start sending to hotmail again. R -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Colbeck, Andrew Sent: Tuesday, May 18,

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Hotmail not accept inbound mail?

2004-05-18 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
> > Yep hotmail is not accepting from us either, I am seeing > connection resets from them > > Rick Davidson > National Systems Manager > North American Title Group > - > - Original Message - > From: "Colbeck, Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] SPEWS problem

2004-05-17 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Goran, mail.lanshoppe.com is not listed in SPEWS; your provider, HopOne is. Other than complain to HopOne, there is nothing you can do except switch your inbound mail server somewhere else, like swapping with your outbound mail service, for example. You can read information about SPEWS, and HopOne

[Declude.JunkMail] OT: Antivirus companies muting false alarms

2004-05-13 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Title: Message http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5210796.html?tag=zdfd.newsfeed    Quote:   They were wrong, and they were annoying, so now they've been stopped. With a new version of Symantec's SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) e-mail security product, the antivirus company is trying to

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] ALLRECIPS CONTAINS END not ending?

2004-05-13 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Don't poke the bear, Kami. Andrew 8) -Original Message- From: Kami Razvan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 10:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] ALLRECIPS CONTAINS END not ending? "There is a new interim release 1.79i7 at" :) Scott... No

[Declude.JunkMail] OT: critical vuln in Symantec firewalls

2004-05-13 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
http://www.eeye.com/html/Research/Advisories/AD20040512A.html and Symantec's patch: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2004.05.12.ht ml which can be downloaded and installed via LiveUpdate. Unlike the BlackIce worm, there is no report of malware "in the wild" but th

[Declude.JunkMail] Hotmail not accept inbound mail?

2004-05-11 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Anybody else with this trouble? I've got 300+ messages queued to hotmail.com addresses. Both my cached and a fresh DNS query look fine. I have a ton of: MX connect fail "65.54.190.50" messages in my Imail log (lots of different IP addresses whose reverse DNS ends with hotmail.com) Andrew. ---

[Declude.JunkMail] OT: Authors of Sasser and Phatbot arrested

2004-05-09 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
http://www.securitynewsportal.com/cgi-bin/cgi-script/csNews/csNews.cgi?datab ase=JanEE%2edb&command=viewone&id=15 Both in Germany, and in seemingly unrelated incidents. Whoever informed on the Sasser author to Microsoft may see a payout of a quarter of a million dollars. Andrew 8) --- [This E-ma

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Perl Script & Spamheaders

2004-04-28 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Title: Message John, I'm thinking that you're not qualifying the right hand side of the message-id variable as text.   Let me put that another way: why are you not putting quotes around the parts that are text, and why are you only escaping the @ sign and not the hyphen or the GT and LT sig

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Validate Email address

2004-04-27 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Title: Message If you have JunkMail Pro, and thus text filtering, you could do what I do for a case that sounds similar to yours.   We have a domain which has very few email addresses, and spammers regularly try a certain set of addresses that simply never existed, along with CC'ing or BCC'i

[Declude.JunkMail] Obvious, but it was new for me

2004-04-21 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Title: Message I just saved some processing power..   One of my most important text filters is the BODY search for URL stuff.  But it's quite big.  To keep my loglevels in check, I use LOGLEVEL MID, which doesn't log the individual lines triggered.  But whether I use MID or HIGH, the line nu

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Dangerous img dynsrc tag in body

2004-04-21 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Good tip! This is what the web page is using: http://netsecurity.about.com/cs/generalsecurity/a/aa021504.htm to download a file it creates called C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\Iesearch.exe by downloading and rename the file http://68.192.132.122:8067/mstasks.dat which my latest Trend Micro

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: ASCII code

2004-04-21 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Yep, also 0x20, also #20 Andrew 8) -Original Message- From: John Tolmachoff (Lists) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 10:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: ASCII code A space is %20, correct? John Tolmachoff Engineer/Consultant/Owner eSer

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Weight and Action Question

2004-04-21 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Yep, a configuration of WEIGHT10 DELETE and a WEIGHT20 HOLD would indeed delete a message with a weight of 21. Something you mentioned earlier prompts me to point out another thing; the veterans in the list generally regard HOLD messages not as something they have to check out several times a day

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Matts DynDNS test FP

2004-04-20 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
They have weird numeric naming conventions, and use rogers.com for both client and corporate mail. Try this instead: #Sep-26-2003 AC Rogers Cable in Canada REVDNS -10 ENDSWITH .is.net.cable.rogers.com REVDNS -10 ENDSWITH .cpe.net.cable.rogers.com REVDNS 10 CONTAINS .cable. Andrew 8) -Origi

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: a cautionary note

2004-04-20 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
ndrew 8) -Original Message- From: Colbeck, Andrew Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 8:25 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: a cautionary note This really belongs on the IMail support list, but I don't subscribe to that... On the weekend, I had a eurek

[Declude.JunkMail] OT: a cautionary note

2004-04-20 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
This really belongs on the IMail support list, but I don't subscribe to that... On the weekend, I had a eureka moment and figured out why we had 25 minute delays on our inbound messages. It didn't happen often, or at least we didn't notice it often. Mail would just be stuck in IMail, not flowing

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Weight and Action Question

2004-04-19 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Goran, yes, if you set a HOLD action, the weight is irrelevant in the example you cited. In a more complicated example, you'd have to check the precedence of actions listed in the manual. Why? Well, you might also have a WHITELIST action, or a WEIGHT action for a high value that does a DELETE.

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] NOTENDSWITH problem

2004-04-19 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
My humble opinion on terminology, Scott, is that: "fixed in the next build" would better reflect what you meant. Otherwise us folks out here in the list start to wonder whether you mean "release" or "Release". Just another tip for the Declude communications style book. Andrew 8) -Original

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] SPAMDOMAINS - Netscape.com

2004-04-19 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
lPure: Spam and virus blocking services provided by MailPure.com X-MailPure: ============ Colbeck, Andrew wrote: Jeff, the main problem with figuring out spamdomains entries is that you really have to receive valid mail from the domain to really know. If they have an SPF recor

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] SPAMDOMAINS - Netscape.com

2004-04-19 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
ded by MailPure.com X-MailPure: ======== Colbeck, Andrew wrote: >Jeff, the main problem with figuring out spamdomains entries is that you >really have to receive valid mail from the domain to really know. > >If they have an SPF record, that's the easiest way to research them, but you >can

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] SPAMDOMAINS - Netscape.com

2004-04-19 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Jeff, the main problem with figuring out spamdomains entries is that you really have to receive valid mail from the domain to really know. If they have an SPF record, that's the easiest way to research them, but you can also try the website at http://www.SenderBase.org to see what they've noticed.

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] New test

2004-04-18 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Anybody already using a handy way to record the HELO in the decMMDD.log file? I'd like to save the step of going to my sysMMDD.txt file if I could. I've run Bud's test for a few hours and had quite a few hits. The only false positive wasn't a false positive at all, but a correctly identified cas

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] [Declude.Virus] Scott, what do you use to generate this report

2004-04-16 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
This works for me: wamlog dec0416.log c:\imail\declude\global.cfg Modify the parameters to suite your environment, of course. Andrew 8) -Original Message- From: Dave Doherty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 8:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkM

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] SBL-XBL Question

2004-04-16 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Not surprising that you missed this one, based on the subject line: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg17684.html Sorry if this has already been answered here. My inbound messages on this list have been highly out of sort order. Andrew 8) -Original Message- From: Scott Fi

[Declude.JunkMail] OT: Cosmic 419er lost in space

2004-04-16 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/16/cosmic_419er/ A little levity for Friday. Andrew 8) --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED],

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] why does this fail the spam domains test?

2004-04-16 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Dave, allow me to butt in here with the late night reply and say yes, your interpretation is exactly right for all 3 of your examples. And let me also add that clarity certainly does help, for example I saw a weird false positive and chuckled over it. I had a sd.txt that listed: mac.com apple.

[Declude.JunkMail] a SURBL snapshot observation

2004-04-15 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
For what it's worth, over the last 2 days, my SURBL success has been 20% that of the text filter I use to block recent spam we've noticed (which contains spamvertised domains). And there has been little overlap between my "local" test and SURBL. Which simply shows that my spam is different from

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] FW: AT&T Customer Satisfaction Survey

2004-04-15 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Title: Message Definitely fake, Sharyn.   0) Like you said, it had at least one typo.  And would they tell you what "segment" they've put you in? And to an email address they've never been given?   1) The link goes through another provider with a 6 month old domain name, through a Group Te

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] [Declude.Virus] Scott, what do you use to generate this report

2004-04-14 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Smokin' Bill! That's very fast. I certainly found a few surprises at 0 hits for a normal day. Some low priority suggestions: - Change "fail" wording in the header to "trigger" or "hit" or something. - Ignore Declude directives, e.g. LOOSENSPAMHEADERS, HOPHIGH, CONSOLE, PREWHITELIST ... Thanks

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Combine BASE64 and REVDNS?

2004-04-13 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
ated tests. Both tests can return a hit for the same IP under this arrangement. Note that the impact of this one change is fairly minor, but with a lot of minor changes, I have managed to get another half cup of juice out of my current server. Matt Colbeck, Andrew wrote: Hey, Kevin.

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Combine BASE64 and REVDNS?

2004-04-12 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
te that the impact of this one change is fairly minor, but with a lot of minor changes, I have managed to get another half cup of juice out of my current server. Matt Colbeck, Andrew wrote: >Hey, Kevin. > >I do get the usual web page when I go to the CBL homepage you listed. I see >t

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Last Action = log line

2004-04-12 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Nifty! I'm on the current interim without issue, and it's great to have that log line at LOGLEVEL MED. Thanks a bunch, Andrew 8) -Original Message- From: R. Scott Perry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 2:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMai

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Words found in encoded file atachments

2004-04-12 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Rick, no, the BODY text filtering searches everywhere, including inside binary attachments. Your best bet is to assign those nasty words with very little weight, don't use very short words, and/or try to match a phrase instead, or use trailing punctuation. For example, I've found that although th

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Combine BASE64 and REVDNS?

2004-04-12 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Hey, Kevin. I do get the usual web page when I go to the CBL homepage you listed. I see that the last update was March-30-2004 when they stated that they had harvested out a lot of their old records. I stopped using CBL on Jan-05-2004, though, because the SpamHaus XBL is a superset of CBL, e.g.:

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Test for message size and return codes

2004-04-06 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Title: Message Matt, try the more verbose:  EXTERNALTEST    external    30    "C:\Windows\System32\cscript.exe C:\IMail\Declude\test.vbs //B //NoLogo //T:2"  0    0   I don't know how that will mangle the order of the parameter passing of the message filename, but sniffer manag

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Test for message size and return codes

2004-04-06 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Title: Message Putting all of 60 seconds into this, Matt, I've the following I can help with:   Your link works great, so the method of calling it is probably suspect.  I haven't tried to check the return code in Declude, but in a mini-script it works fine.   Have you set the cscript host t

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Invalid Whitelist Type: Anywhere

2004-04-06 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Rob, check your spelling of "ANYWHERE" there is a typo in it. Andrew 8) -Original Message- From: Robert Grosshandler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 9:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] Invalid Whitelist Type: Anywhere Getting this error mes

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Anyone heard about og used crm114

2004-04-05 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
I have my doubts. As with any learning system, accurate training is paramount. Wiser heads than me have commented here on when learning systems are a good fit. He doesn't state how many mailboxes that he is handling and whether it is for a vanity site, ISP, or corporate mail host. He may be impr

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Phishing?

2004-04-03 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Title: Message The DNS and web server for this domain were on dynamic-range hosts and have already been shut down.  The WHOIS registration is a little more than a week old.  Googling the net-abuse groups turns up:   http://groups.google.ca/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=30cd601n6r

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Last Action = log line

2004-04-02 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
That would be great! For what it's worth, the new verbose weight and test results description line is very handy, too. For example, If I want to count the messages held, I can: egrep -c "Last action = HOLD." dec0316.log whereas if I want to count the number of recipients for those messa

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