[sniffer] Watch out... SURBL SORBS full of large ISPs and Antispam providres.

2006-01-17 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Sniffer Folks, Watch out for false positives. This morning along with the current spam storm we discovered that SURBL and SORBs are listing a large number of ISP domains and anti-spam service/software providers. As a result, many of these were tagged by our bots due to spam

Re: [sniffer] Watch out... SURBL SORBS full of large ISPs and Antispamprovidres.

2006-01-17 Thread Darrell (supp...@invariantsystems.com)
Pete, I just checked real quick hitting several DNS servers (mine and others) and I am not seeing this - are you still seeing this now? C:\nslookup 2.0.0.127.multi.surbl.org Server: nscache5.bflony.adelphia.net Address: 68.168.224.180 Non-authoritative answer: Name:

Re[2]: [sniffer] Watch out... SURBL SORBS full of large ISPs and Antispamprovidres.

2006-01-17 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, January 17, 2006, 7:21:11 AM, Matt wrote: M Pete, M w3.org would be a huge problem because Outlook will insert this in the M XML headers of any HTML generated E-mail. M If you could give us an idea of when this started and possibly ended, M that would help in the process of review.

Re: [sniffer] Watch out... SURBL SORBS full of large ISPs and Antispamprovidres.

2006-01-17 Thread Matt
Pete, I reviewed my Hold range going back to Monday morning and I wasn't able to find anything out of the ordinary. I also searched my logs from my URIBL tool that queries SURBL among other things, and I wasn't able to find any hits for those domains that you pointed out. I guess that I

Re[2]: [sniffer] Watch out... SURBL SORBS full of large ISPs and Antispamprovidres.

2006-01-17 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, January 17, 2006, 8:10:44 AM, Darrell wrote: Dsic Pete, Dsic I just checked real quick hitting several DNS servers (mine and others) and Dsic I am not seeing this - are you still seeing this now? Nope... it was short lived. _M This E-Mail came from the Message Sniffer mailing

Re[2]: [SURBL-Discuss] Fw: [sniffer] Watch out... SURBL SORBS full of large ISPs and Antispam providres.

2006-01-17 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, January 17, 2006, 10:15:51 AM, William wrote: WS ws.surbl.org does not have these domains, and it appears none of WS the other surbls does either. From WS http://www.rulesemporium.com/cgi-bin/uribl.cgi : WS SURBL+ Checker Query Results WS declude.com is 63.246.13.88 [ rbl

[sniffer] Rollback of bot rules..

2006-01-17 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Sniffer Folks, There is an unknown problem with the bots surrounding SURBL and SORBS testing. Rather than search for all the needles in all the haystacks we are taking the following action: The bots will be offline until further notice - so all rules will be those that are

RE: [sniffer] Rollback of bot rules..

2006-01-17 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Thank you, Pete. In my spelunking, I've found too many rules to put in as panic entries my .cfg file, and this morning I dropped the weight for my experimental class tests to low values, and heavily edited my combo tests that build on Sniffer hits. I'm attaching a report showing the number of

[sniffer] FP Sig IDs

2006-01-17 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Sniffer Folks, I have posted a CSV file containing all of the rule IDs that are likely to be involved in the recent problem with the bots. These are the rules that we pulled out of service - they were created by the bots between 2300E yesterday and up to the time we turned off the

[sniffer] Update

2006-01-17 Thread Frederick Samarelli
Can you send the update or I will have to disable Sniffer. It is catching almost all our emails.

Re: [sniffer] Update

2006-01-17 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, January 17, 2006, 6:44:20 PM, Frederick wrote: FS FS FS Can you send the update or I will have to disable Sniffer. FS FS   FS FS It is catching almost all our emails. Your last update was 2144GMT, about 146 minutes ago (if my math is right). Pacing as at 150 minutes,