Re: Re[4]: [sniffer] Rash of false positives

2005-11-08 Thread Darin Cox
Hi Pete,   I'll send the logs for the past two days separately to support (at).  We do run snf2check on every downloaded rulebase, so that shouldn't be an issue.   The one thing I didn't think to do was to revert to an old rulebase, but we only keep the previous, so it would have already been

Re[4]: [sniffer] Rash of false positives

2005-11-08 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, November 8, 2005, 3:25:20 PM, Darin wrote: > Hi Pete,   There was a consistent stream of false positives over the mentioned time period, not just a blast at a particular time.  They suddenly started at 5pm (shortly after a 4:30pm rulesbase update), and were fairly evenly sprea

Re: Re[2]: [sniffer] Rash of false positives

2005-11-08 Thread Darin Cox
Hi Pete,   There was a consistent stream of false positives over the mentioned time period, not just a blast at a particular time.  They suddenly started at 5pm (shortly after a 4:30pm rulesbase update), and were fairly evenly spread from 5pm - 11pm and 6am - 10am today (not many legitimate

Re[2]: [sniffer] Rash of false positives

2005-11-08 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, November 8, 2005, 10:19:20 AM, Darrell wrote: Dsic> I too have had to submit a lot more false positives lately. I also second Dsic> that false positive processing seems to be a lot slower than previously. We have introduced a number of new rule coding procedures (and people) as well

Re[2]: [sniffer] Rash of false positives

2005-11-08 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, November 8, 2005, 11:02:09 AM, Darin wrote: > Hi Pete,   The rash of false positives seems to have stopped with the last sniffer rulebase update at 10am ET.  It had started with a rulebase update at 4:30pm ET yesterday, and continued through the updates at 8:40pm, 12am, 3am, a

Re: [sniffer] Rash of false positives

2005-11-08 Thread Darin Cox
Hi Pete,   The rash of false positives seems to have stopped with the last sniffer rulebase update at 10am ET.  It had started with a rulebase update at 4:30pm ET yesterday, and continued through the updates at 8:40pm, 12am, 3am, and 6:20am today.   I'd still like to know what happened, and h

Re: [sniffer] Rash of false positives

2005-11-08 Thread Darin Cox
I've submitted about 45 so far this morning. I normally submit at most a half dozen each morning. Darin. - Original Message - From: "Darrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED])" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 10:19 AM Subject: Re: [sniffer] Rash of false positives I too ha

Re: [sniffer] Rash of false positives

2005-11-08 Thread Darrell (supp...@invariantsystems.com)
I too have had to submit a lot more false positives lately. I also second that false positive processing seems to be a lot slower than previously. Darrell Check out http://www.invariantsystems.com for utilities for Declud

Re: [sniffer] Rash of false positives

2005-11-08 Thread Scott Fisher
I don't know if I would call it a rash, but over the last week, I've submitted about 30 false positives. That's far more than average. I've developed a feeling that Message Sniffer has become "too tight".   - Original Message - From: Darin Cox To: sniffer@SortMonster.com

Re: [sniffer] Rash of false positives

2005-11-08 Thread Darin Cox
No, we automatically update with every notification of a new rulebase.   Looking further, they started just before 5pm ET yesterday.  So far, it's about 10 times the usual number of Sniffer false positives.  We've sent quite a few this morning to false (at) for processing. Darin.     - O

Re: [sniffer] Rash of false positives

2005-11-08 Thread Paul Lushinsky
After reviewing all the blocked messages for the past 2 days on 2 different servers, I found no false positives. Do you happen to have an old rule base from several days again ? If so, try that to see if it temporarily resolves the false positives.   -Original Message-From: "Darin Cox"

Re: [sniffer] Rash of false positives

2005-11-08 Thread Darin Cox
We're seeing a continual stream of false positives.  It's taking all of our time just to keep up with it at the moment.  If something isn't done soon, we're going to have to disable sniffer. Darin.     - Original Message - From: Computer House Support To: sniffer@SortMonster.com S

Re: [sniffer] Rash of false positives

2005-11-08 Thread Computer House Support
Dear Darin,   Thanks for the heads up.  It's going to take me about 45 minutes to check the 9000 messages that were blocked by Sniffer last night, but I'll let you know if we experienced the same thing.     Michael SteinComputer House www.computerhouse.com   - Original Message -

[sniffer] Rash of false positives

2005-11-08 Thread Darin Cox
Hi Pete,   What's going on over there?  We had somewhere between 5 and 10 times the usual number of Sniffer false positives this morning.  They are across the board, so it's not just one rule that's catching them, or a particular set of senders or receivers.   Hopefully you can get it under c