Re: [sniffer] New Spam Storm

2005-05-17 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, May 17, 2005, 1:27:25 PM, Jim wrote: JM Is anyone else seeing a huge amount of spam increase over JM the last couple days.  Most is being caught by sniffer but the JM overall number of messages especial foreign language spam messages JM seems to be very high. You are probably

RE: [sniffer] New Spam Storm

2005-05-17 Thread Andy Schmidt
MatuskaSent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 01:27 PMTo: sniffer@SortMonster.comSubject: [sniffer] New Spam Storm Is anyone else seeing a huge amount of spam increase over the last couple days. Most is being caught by sniffer but the overall number of messages especial foreign language spam messages seems

Re: [sniffer] New Spam Storm

2005-05-17 Thread Jim Matuska
] To: Jim Matuska sniffer@SortMonster.com Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 10:38 AM Subject: Re: [sniffer] New Spam Storm On Tuesday, May 17, 2005, 1:27:25 PM, Jim wrote: JM Is anyone else seeing a huge amount of spam increase over JM the last couple days. Most is being caught by sniffer but the JM overall

Re: [sniffer] New Spam Storm

2005-05-17 Thread Jim Matuska
Matuska Jr.Computer Tech2, CCNANez Perce TribeInformation Systems[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Andy Schmidt To: sniffer@SortMonster.com Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 10:41 AM Subject: RE: [sniffer] New Spam Storm Yes, these messages were caused

Re[2]: [sniffer] New Spam Storm

2005-05-17 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, May 17, 2005, 1:44:30 PM, Jim wrote: JM Pete, JM Is there a possibility of setting up another return code for JM situations such as this such as a blacklist rulecode that only has JM rules for messages such as these that should be blacklisted JM immediately.  I wouldn't mind setting

Re: Re[2]: [sniffer] New Spam Storm

2005-05-17 Thread Jim Matuska
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 11:54 AM Subject: Re[2]: [sniffer] New Spam Storm On Tuesday, May 17, 2005, 1:44:30 PM, Jim wrote: JM Pete, JM Is there a possibility of setting up another return code for JM situations such as this such as a blacklist rulecode that only has JM rules for messages

Re[4]: [sniffer] New Spam Storm

2005-05-17 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, May 17, 2005, 2:57:44 PM, Jim wrote: JM Thanks Pete, would you be able to provide the current false positive rates JM for the return codes? This is not something that we are formally capturing at present, however anecdotally I can't recall the last time we had an FP submitted for the

Re: [sniffer] New Spam Storm

2005-05-17 Thread Matt
Pete, Your memory fails you :) I reported one just yesterday, however it was understandable. The rule is below (slightly obfuscated for public consumption). MB Final MB RULE 349776-055: User Submission, 13 days, 3.1979660500 MB NAME: Account and Password Information are

RE: [sniffer] new spam storm?

2005-01-04 Thread Rick Robeson
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kirk Mitchell Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 2:56 PM To: sniffer@SortMonster.com Subject: [sniffer] new spam storm? Seems like I've been getting a ton of spam in the last few days that's been scored as either LOW or CLEAN, many

RE: [sniffer] new spam storm?

2005-01-04 Thread Andy Schmidt
many of them for ... my cheating wife. Sorry to hear about your marital problems. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kirk Mitchell Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 05:56 PM To: sniffer@SortMonster.com Subject: [sniffer] new spam storm

Re: [sniffer] new spam storm?

2005-01-04 Thread Matt
I've noted that dictionary attack type spam is generally of this variety, and while you are probably blocking a great deal of this, the sheer volume makes it look like you aren't doing that well against it. I've also noted that the domains that they use are frequently changed, thus escaping

Re[2]: [sniffer] new spam storm?

2005-01-04 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, January 4, 2005, 6:06:00 PM, Rick wrote: RR I've sure been seeing it. My db updates are triggered off email update RR notices from sniffer, so I know I have the latest. RR Feels like something's gone wrong with sniffer due to the year change. We are definitely experiencing a spam

RE: [sniffer] new spam storm?

2005-01-04 Thread Kirk Mitchell
At 06:03 PM 1/4/2005 -0500, Andy Schmidt wrote: many of them for ... my cheating wife. Sorry to hear about your marital problems. LOL! Apparently the tramp's been sleeping all over, and there are plenty of websites that can show me how, where, when, and with whom. Darned if I know when she's

Re[2]: [sniffer] new spam storm?

2005-01-04 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, January 4, 2005, 6:13:24 PM, Matt wrote: M I've noted that dictionary attack type spam is generally of this M variety, and while you are probably blocking a great deal of this, the M sheer volume makes it look like you aren't doing that well against it. M I've also noted that the