Re: [sniffer] New Web Site!

2006-03-17 Thread Jonathan Hickman
A wiki is a site that is publically editable. Anyone can add to the site as long as they have a valid account. - Original Message - From: Harry Vanderzand [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sniffer@SortMonster.com Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 11:15 AM Subject: RE: [sniffer] New Web Site! What

Re: [sniffer] reporting spam

2006-03-16 Thread Glenn \ WCNet
??? That can't be done when Sniffer directly POPs a submission mailbox. - Original Message - From: Roger Moser [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sniffer@sortmonster.com Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 4:18 PM Subject: [sniffer] reporting spam I just found out that when you are reporting received

Re: [sniffer] reporting spam

2006-03-16 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, March 16, 2006, 5:18:00 PM, Roger wrote: RM I just found out that when you are reporting received spam to RM [EMAIL PROTECTED], you should remove the Received: header added by your RM mail server. Otherwise you might create a rule that filters all mail from RM your mail server.

Re: [sniffer] New RuleBot F002 Online

2006-03-13 Thread Matt
Pete, I would definitely like to see rules classified for what they are based on instead of the content, but certainly I don't expect to see that without a major new release. Rules such as those based phrases, IP's, domains, patterns, and viruses all have different accuracies and issues.

Re: [sniffer] New add compain

2006-03-10 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, March 10, 2006, 2:00:42 PM, John wrote: JTL I am seeing a log of spam with a subject line of with fw: or re: followed by JTL the username portion of the reciepient. Any way to create a rule for this? There's nothing simple we can do for this one based on that alone - at least not

Re: [sniffer] New RuleBot F002 Online

2006-03-10 Thread Matt
Pete, In light of current and prolonged issues, this seems like a good and safe tactic. I would appreciate it however if maybe you could place the rules in another result code since this result code is not as accurate as some others are and some of us weight it lower than others. Thanks,

Re: [sniffer] New RuleBot F002 Online

2006-03-10 Thread Darin Cox
@SortMonster.com Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 3:37 PM Subject: Re: [sniffer] New RuleBot F002 Online Pete, In light of current and prolonged issues, this seems like a good and safe tactic. I would appreciate it however if maybe you could place the rules in another result code since this result code

Re: [sniffer] F001 Rule Bot Change

2006-03-09 Thread Darin Cox
Good job, Pete. Through these changes we saw a minimal increase in false positives on one day, and detection seems to have improved as well. Darin. - Original Message - From: Pete McNeil [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sniffer@sortmonster.com Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 3:08 AM Subject:

Re: [sniffer] F001 Rule Bot Change

2006-03-09 Thread Nick Hayer
Hi Pete - Pete McNeil wrote: Hello Sniffer Folks, The F001 Rule Bot has been adjusted. Is it possible for you to recommend a percentage of accuracy or maybe better stated a percentage of delete weight for each rule? I am wondering which rules you feel are the weakest and which are the

Re: [sniffer] [Fwd: Starbucks $500 Prize #972499912]

2006-03-07 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, March 7, 2006, 5:00:33 PM, Heimir wrote: HE Why is this not filtered? HE Every one of them contains the word HE Domains4u HE I have reported several but they are still coming in. Actually, they are now (I tried coding the message and duped out on the domain rules). Domains4u is

Re: [sniffer] [Fwd: Starbucks $500 Prize #972499912]

2006-03-07 Thread Heimir Eidskrem
Request sent. Thank you for your prompt response. Cordially, Heimir Eidskrem i360, Inc. 2825 Wilcrest, Suite 675 Houston, TX 77042 Ph: 713-981-4900 Fax: 832-242-6632 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.i360.net www.i360hosting.com www.realister.com Houston's Leading Internet Consulting Company Pete

RE: [sniffer] declude tests

2006-03-07 Thread Harry Vanderzand
rnal 060 "D:\IMail\Declude\sniffer\xx.exe xx persistent" 12 0 Harry Vanderzand inTown Internet Computer Services 519-741-1222 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott FisherSent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 5:06 PMTo: sniffer@SortMo

Re: [sniffer] declude tests

2006-03-07 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, March 7, 2006, 4:58:35 PM, Harry wrote: HV HV HV at the moment I run the following test in declude HV HV SNIFFER  external nonzero HV D:\IMail\Declude\sniffer\xx.exe  persistent 13 0 HV THIS IS WRONG! You should not have the persistent command line option

RE: [sniffer] New Rulebot F001

2006-03-06 Thread Jay Sudowski - Handy Networks LLC
There's been at least one FP ;) -- Rule - 861038 NameF001 for Message 2888327: [216.239.56.131] Created 2006-03-02 Source 216.239.56.131 Hidden false Blocked false Origin Automated-SpamTrap TypeReceivedIP Created By [EMAIL PROTECTED] Owner [EMAIL

Re: [sniffer] New Rulebot F001

2006-03-06 Thread Darin Cox
- Handy Networks LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sniffer@SortMonster.com Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 3:13 PM Subject: RE: [sniffer] New Rulebot F001 There's been at least one FP ;) -- Rule - 861038 NameF001 for Message 2888327: [216.239.56.131] Created 2006-03-02 Source

Re: [sniffer] New rulebase compilers online.

2006-03-06 Thread Matt
Pete, Does this mean that you are somehow supporting incremental rule base updates, or is it that the compiler is just much faster so we will get the same number of updates, but generally get them 40-120 minutes earlier in relation to the data that generated them? Either way, definitely an

Re: [sniffer] Sniffer, MDLP, and invURIBL?

2006-02-25 Thread Scott Fisher
the %WEIGHT% passes the current message weight from Declude to INVURIBL. Used with SKIPWEIGHT option in invuribl.exe.config the %REMOTEIP% passes the sender's IP from Declude to INVURIBL. Used to whitelist IPs in senderipwhitelist.txt invuribl will find false positives, but is a very

RE: [sniffer] Sniffer, MDLP, and invURIBL?

2006-02-25 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Joe, Are you using MDLP to autotune your weights in Declude? If so, you can exclude invURIBL and other tests which you don't want to change, whether because you think the weight is perfect, or because their randomness doesn't fit MDLP's idea of a weighting system. Check out this snippet

Re: [sniffer] Sniffer, MDLP, and invURIBL?

2006-02-25 Thread Joe Wolf
, 2006 12:35 PM Subject: RE: [sniffer] Sniffer, MDLP, and invURIBL? Joe, Are you using MDLP to autotune your weights in Declude? If so, you can exclude invURIBL and other tests which you don't want to change, whether because you think the weight is perfect, or because

RE: [sniffer] IP Blacklist rules

2006-02-24 Thread Andy Schmidt
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pete McNeil Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 03:38 PM To: Andy Schmidt Subject: Re: [sniffer] IP Blacklist rules On Friday, February 24, 2006, 2:56:02 PM, Andy wrote: AS Hi, AS I'm realizing that some Sniffer rules amount to nothing more than IP

RE: [sniffer] False Positives

2006-02-23 Thread John Carter
A program like freeware Baregrep (http://www.baremetalsoft.com/baregrep/) might be helpful to you. Do you not regularly cycle your logs and submit them? John C -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Rogers Sent: Thursday, February 23,

Re: [sniffer] False Positives

2006-02-23 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, February 23, 2006, 5:48:55 AM, Kevin wrote: KR So when I asked how I would send in false positives, someone mentioned KR that I should look up the appropriate log entry and send that in. That KR brings up another question. My log file is 270MB and climbing. I've KR never opened it

RE: [sniffer] When to go persistent

2006-02-23 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Goran, I'd be interested in Pete's technical answer, too. The practical answer is that you should always go with the persistent instance of Message Sniffer. From reading Pete's previous screeds and monitoring the list here in the last year and from having my own troubles, it's pretty clear to me

Re: [sniffer] When to go persistent

2006-02-23 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, February 23, 2006, 11:30:02 AM, Goran wrote: GJ Hi, GJ Is there any good rule of thumb, in terms of messages processed per GJ minute/hour/day when you should move to a persistent instance of GJ Sniffer? I would suggest using the persistent mode unless you have a reason not to. (In

RE: [sniffer] When to go persistent

2006-02-23 Thread Goran Jovanovic
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colbeck, Andrew Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 11:39 AM To: sniffer@SortMonster.com Subject: RE: [sniffer] When to go persistent Goran, I'd be interested in Pete's technical answer, too. The practical answer is that you should always go

Re: [sniffer] When to go persistent

2006-02-23 Thread Joe / Internet Specialists, LLC
? Thanks, Joe - Original Message - From: Pete McNeil [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Goran Jovanovic sniffer@SortMonster.com Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 10:44 AM Subject: Re: [sniffer] When to go persistent On Thursday, February 23, 2006, 11:30:02 AM, Goran wrote: GJ Hi, GJ Is there any good

Re: [sniffer] What is this file

2006-02-23 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, February 23, 2006, 1:07:07 PM, Goran wrote: GJ Pete, GJ I have seen a couple of times that the file GJ C:\External\Sniffer\my license-20060221071316x386D4931-2352.SVR GJ Is open and cannot be backed up. GJ What is this file? I assume that I do not need to be worried since the GJ

RE: [sniffer] What is this file

2006-02-23 Thread Goran Jovanovic
Thank you that is great. Goran Jovanovic Omega Network Solutions -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pete McNeil Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 3:08 PM To: Goran Jovanovic Subject: Re: [sniffer] What is this file On Thursday

Re: [sniffer] False Positive - no reaction?

2006-02-21 Thread Darin Cox
On average it takes 2 or three days to hear back on false positives. Darin. - Original Message - From: Andy Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sniffer@SortMonster.com Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 9:40 AM Subject: [sniffer] False Positive - no reaction? Hi, I filed this false positive

Re: [sniffer] False Positive - no reaction?

2006-02-21 Thread Pete McNeil
I'm a little behind. I'm going to do false positives in the next 10 minutes. I only have 20 to do it should go fast. Sorry for the delay. Thanks, _M On Tuesday, February 21, 2006, 9:40:07 AM, Andy wrote: AS Hi, AS I filed this false positive report a day ago and never heard back. AS Just

RE: [sniffer] False Positive - no reaction?

2006-02-21 Thread Andy Schmidt
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pete McNeil Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 09:55 AM To: Andy Schmidt Subject: Re: [sniffer] False Positive - no reaction? I'm a little behind. I'm going to do false positives in the next 10 minutes. I only have 20 to do

Re: [sniffer] [Fwd: Diann Helms]

2006-02-15 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, February 15, 2006, 8:53:27 AM, Heimir wrote: HE Anyway to stop this spam. HE We are getting hundreds of them. HE I have personally gotten 23. It's a challenging one... there is almost no data, and the geocities link is constantly different. I've written another abstract to cover

RE: [sniffer] [Fwd: Diann Helms]

2006-02-15 Thread Markus Gufler
Heimir, It's not a Sniffer-related answer but I personaly use a combination of a text filter file (looking for known geocities-links) and the IP-blacklist SORBS-DUHL (who contains dialup ip-ranges). As all my customers are connecting with SMTP-Auth or from known IP-ranges I can whitelist them. So

Re: [sniffer] [Fwd: Diann Helms]

2006-02-15 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hi Pete, [] If you wish, it is possible to create a local black rule for any geocities link. On many ISP systems this would cause false positives, but on more private systems it may be a reasonable solution. I think I could use such a black rulw without getting to may FPs, but in which

Re: [sniffer] [Fwd: Diann Helms]

2006-02-15 Thread Heimir Eidskrem
would you share your filters? I assume Declude filters. Cordially, Heimir Eidskrem i360, Inc. 2825 Wilcrest, Suite 675 Houston, TX 77042 Ph: 713-981-4900 Fax: 832-242-6632 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.i360.net www.i360hosting.com www.realister.com Houston's Leading Internet Consulting Company

RE: [sniffer] [Fwd: Diann Helms]

2006-02-15 Thread Markus Gufler
would you share your filters? I assume Declude filters. Yes. Attached is the original message from Scott Fisher regarding the geocities-filter file. (I call it GEOCITIESLINKS) I've replaced each weight (100 and 75 points) with 0. So this test will add no weight to the final result. In

Re: [sniffer] False Positive

2006-02-15 Thread Pete McNeil
Answered off-list _M On Tuesday, February 14, 2006, 2:07:48 PM, Steve wrote: SG Hello, SG Could you please tell me what would cause an email to fail rule # 831417 SG This was a good email flagged this morning and deleted. SG Regards, SG Steve Guluk SG SGDesign SG (949) 661-9333 SG ICQ:

RE: [sniffer] False Positives

2006-02-15 Thread Jay Sudowski - Handy Networks LLC
Search your sniffer logs and include the log lines for that particular message. -Jay -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Rogers Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 3:55 PM To: sniffer@SortMonster.com Subject: [sniffer] False Positives

Re: [sniffer] False Positives

2006-02-15 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, February 15, 2006, 3:54:50 PM, Kevin wrote: KR My users have been getting a lot of FPs by Sniffer lately. They send me KR the email with the FULL HEADERS displayed and I forward this email on to KR SortMonster. The program they use to analyze incoming submissions check KR MY email

RE: [sniffer] False Positives

2006-02-15 Thread Jim Matuska Jr.
PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pete McNeil Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 1:28 PM To: Kevin Rogers Subject: Re: [sniffer] False Positives On Wednesday, February 15, 2006, 3:54:50 PM, Kevin wrote: KR My users have been getting

Re: [sniffer] False Positives

2006-02-15 Thread Computer House Support
@SortMonster.com Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 4:40 PM Subject: RE: [sniffer] False Positives Pete, Is there anyway to get an automatic response similar to the one listed below for the FP address, but for submissions to your spam@ address? It would be nice to get some feedback when submitting spam

Re: [sniffer] Max Evals Error

2006-02-13 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, February 13, 2006, 3:18:00 PM, David wrote: DS Anyone ever seen this in a log file of a valid license? DS 20060213200957 De7928e8800a61b18.smd 328 266 DS ERROR_MAX_EVALS 72 0 0 18885 1024 DS This line has shown up 3 times today in a log file that processes

RE: [sniffer] problems!!!!

2006-02-08 Thread Markus Gufler
Harry, (please don't post your entire license code to a public list.) regarding the reliability of sniffer we should know that errors sometimes can happen, even at sniffer-side after they've worked for years now very relaible. I don't expect that such errors will happen now more often.

RE: [sniffer] problems!!!!

2006-02-08 Thread Harry Vanderzand
: sniffer@SortMonster.comSubject: RE: [sniffer] problems Harry, (please don't post your entire license code to a public list.) regarding the reliability of sniffer we should know that errors sometimes can happen, even at sniffer-side after they've worked for years now very

Re: [sniffer] problems!!!!

2006-02-08 Thread Darin Cox
I have an idea. These problems seem to stem mostly from changes in the methods of handling rulebase updates. We were lucky enough not to be affected with the latest rule issue, but the previous one made for a very long day andsomedisgruntled customers. Would it be feasible to announce in

RE: [sniffer] problems!!!!

2006-02-08 Thread Markus Gufler
so and so it shouldn't be necessary to do something like manualy block updates. Markus From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darin CoxSent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 4:59 PMTo: sniffer@SortMonster.comSubject: Re: [sniffer] problems I ha

Re: [sniffer] problems!!!!

2006-02-08 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, February 8, 2006, 11:19:52 AM, Andy wrote: AS Pete, AS The only idea I came up with, would be to have ALL new rules go into a 6 AS hour proving category (=return code) before they are moved into their AS final category. AS By using Sniffer return codes, folks could decide to trust

RE: [sniffer] Message sniffer in FreeBSD Postfix

2006-02-08 Thread Craig Deal
Is there anyone else who would like to see Message Sniffer incorporated into Amavis-new? This would be a great addition to my IMGate - Postfix mail gateway. Currently I use message sniffer on my Imail box but would like to offload that server and do the sniffing before the mail hits

RE: [sniffer] Message sniffer in FreeBSD Postfix

2006-02-08 Thread NetEase Operations Manager
Does not require spamassassin or amavis. You can do it just with postfix. DustyC -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Craig Deal Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 10:41 AM To: sniffer@SortMonster.com Subject: RE: [sniffer] Message sniffer

RE: [sniffer] Message sniffer in FreeBSD Postfix

2006-02-08 Thread Craig Deal
Does not require spamassassin or amavis. You can do it just with postfix. DustyC True, but he wanted it to work with amavisd-new. Less risk of a false positive if its part of a weighted system. Craig This E-Mail came from the Message Sniffer mailing list. For information and

RE: [sniffer] Message sniffer in FreeBSD Postfix

2006-02-08 Thread Jacques Brouwers
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Craig Deal Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 9:49 AM To: sniffer@SortMonster.com Subject: RE: [sniffer] Message sniffer in FreeBSD Postfix Does not require spamassassin or amavis. You can do it just

RE: [sniffer] Message sniffer in FreeBSD Postfix

2006-02-08 Thread NetEase Operations Manager
before it hits the Imail server. DustyC -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Support Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 10:56 AM To: sniffer@SortMonster.com Subject: Re: [sniffer] Message sniffer in FreeBSD Postfix Hi Dusty: Was it much

Re: [sniffer] question on xhdr files

2006-02-08 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, February 8, 2006, 12:54:56 PM, David wrote: DP I am using a smtp proxy called Ewall with Message Sniffer. DP I just checked inside the Ewall folders and found one named TEMP where I DP found tens of thousands of files with the .xhdr extension. DP What are these? Are they needed?

RE: [sniffer] Message sniffer in FreeBSD Postfix

2006-02-08 Thread NetEase Operations Manager
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Landry, William (MED US) Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 1:02 PM To: sniffer@SortMonster.com Subject: RE: [sniffer] Message sniffer in FreeBSD Postfix Yep, but for someone not running IMail/Declude, the integration with spamassassin and amavisd-new works great. Bill

RE: [sniffer] Message sniffer in FreeBSD Postfix

2006-02-08 Thread William Van Hefner
Jacques, I am pretty sure that you would also need to install SpamAssassin in order to get Sniffer to work. I do not believe that there is any way to plug Sniffer into Amavis-new directly, nor would you necessarily want it to. William Van Hefner Network Administrator Vantek Communications, Inc.

Re: [sniffer] problems!!!!

2006-02-08 Thread David Sullivan
Wednesday, February 8, 2006, 11:19:52 AM, you wrote: AS The only idea I came up with, would be to have ALL new rules go into a 6 AS hour proving category (=return code) before they are moved into their AS final category. AS By using Sniffer return codes, folks could decide to trust the

Re: [sniffer] Bad Rule - 828931

2006-02-07 Thread Computer House Support
Dear Pete, In the future, please let us know immediately when you become aware of this. As it is, I will spend the next 3 hours picking out the fales positives from the mailbox and forwarding them to the clients. If I could have put the rulepanic in place an hour ago it would have saved me a

Re: [sniffer] Downloads are slow.

2006-02-07 Thread Pete McNeil
I'm not showing this from my location and the server looks ok. I just downloaded a few rulebases, each in under 3 seconds. Please provide a traceroute -- that should show us where the issue is (if it is still there). Thanks, _M On Tuesday, February 7, 2006, 4:39:35 PM, Chuck wrote: CS

RE: [sniffer] Downloads are slow.

2006-02-07 Thread John Carter
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pete McNeil Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 4:46 PM To: Chuck Schick Subject: Re: [sniffer] Downloads are slow. I'm not showing this from my location and the server looks ok. I just downloaded a few rulebases, each in under 3 seconds. Please provide a traceroute

Re: [sniffer] Bad Rule - 828931

2006-02-07 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, February 7, 2006, 6:15:13 PM, David wrote: DS Sorry, wrong thread on the last post. DS Add'l question. Pete, what is the content of the rule? The rule info is: Rule - 828931 NameC%+I%+A%+L%+I%+S%+V%+I%+A%+G%+R%+A Created 2006-02-07 Source

RE: [sniffer] Bad Rule - 828931

2006-02-07 Thread John Carter
, February 07, 2006 6:44 PM To: David Sullivan Subject: Re: [sniffer] Bad Rule - 828931 On Tuesday, February 7, 2006, 6:15:13 PM, David wrote: DS Sorry, wrong thread on the last post. DS Add'l question. Pete, what is the content of the rule? The rule info is: Rule - 828931 NameC%+I%+A%+L%+I%+S

Re: [sniffer] Date/time stamp in logs

2006-02-07 Thread Pete McNeil
On Tuesday, February 7, 2006, 7:48:05 PM, John wrote: JC I don't get into the sniffer logs like I should, but just noticed this. It JC is 2/7/06 6:42 CST here, but my logs show 20060208004243, which would JC indicate +6 hours off of Zulu, Greenwich, Coordinated Universal Time, or JC whatever we

Re: [sniffer] Bad Rule - 828931

2006-02-07 Thread Matt
Pete, Gotcha. Basically anything that I trapped that is over 10 KB may have failed this (because that would be indicative of having an attachment in base64). It is much less likely to have hit on things without attachments, but it of course would be possible, and the bigger it was, the

Re: [sniffer] Bad Rule - 828931

2006-02-07 Thread Matt
Pete, The overflow directory disappeared when 3.x was introduced. I posted a follow up on the Declude list about how to do this. Matt Pete McNeil wrote: On Tuesday, February 7, 2006, 8:14:53 PM, David wrote: DS Hello Pete, DS Tuesday, February 7, 2006, 8:11:50 PM, you wrote: DS Not

RE: [sniffer] Bad Rule - 828931

2006-02-07 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Thanks for the update, Pete. I also appreciate that you expanded on how that rule went wild. I can see that the intent was good but the unintended consequences were not so good. Here's how it played out on my server: How many messages hit the FP rules: 2,042 How many messages Declude decided

RE: [sniffer] Bad Rule - 828931

2006-02-07 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Thanks for the update, Pete.I also appreciate that you expanded on how that rule went wild. I can see that the intent was good but the unintended consequences were not so good.Here's how it played out on my server:How many messages hit the FP rules: 2,042How many messages Declude decided

RE: [sniffer] Stock SPAM now HTML

2006-02-02 Thread Michiel Prins
Isn't it time to call for an exorcist? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Goran JovanovicSent: donderdag 2 februari 2006 5:31To: sniffer@SortMonster.comSubject: [sniffer] Stock SPAM now HTML Well the plain text stock spam has just taken a turn to more

RE: [sniffer] Stock SPAM now HTML

2006-02-02 Thread Goran Jovanovic
McNeil Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 7:20 AM To: Goran Jovanovic Subject: Re: [sniffer] Stock SPAM now HTML On Wednesday, February 1, 2006, 11:30:49 PM, Goran wrote: GJ GJ GJ GJ Well the plain text stock spam has just taken a turn to more GJ interesting and SNF is not capturing it yet

RE: [sniffer] Automate MDaemon Updating

2006-02-02 Thread Jim Matuska Jr.
We actually did that exact thing, went from Imail to MDaemon when Imail started drastically increasing their prices a year or so ago. We are using the same scripts now with MDaemon that we used in Imail and they just fine (I think they may be Bills Landry's scripts). As for license file, it

Re: [sniffer] Automate MDaemon Updating

2006-02-02 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, February 2, 2006, 12:25:01 PM, Grant wrote: GS Has anyone got an automated updating script for updating rulebases for GS MDaemon. I am just demoing the software now. The plugin seems to be GS working well. I have used the Imail script from the website that Bill GS Landry

Re: [sniffer] Automate MDaemon Updating

2006-02-02 Thread Dave Habben
Attached is what I use, feel free to contact me off-list if you've got any specific questions. Originally taken from: http://www.sortmonster.com/MessageSniffer/Help/AutomatingUpdatesHelp.html -- Dave Habben Coordinator of Network Services Sauk Valley Community College Grant Stufft wrote: Has

RE: [sniffer] The SPAM bots?

2006-01-30 Thread Michiel Prins
G'day, I'm just wandering... what CAN be done about this? If I send an embedded picture to someone, how's sniffer gonna see the difference between my holiday picture and the stock spam? I reckon it's gonna be tough to block these? Cheers, Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [sniffer] The SPAM bots?

2006-01-30 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, January 30, 2006, 10:16:06 AM, Goran wrote: GJ Hi, GJ Are the bots working again? I am seeing a number of the STOCK pitches GJ coming through (the ones that use the picture attachment eg. GJ tdimg border=0 alt= GJ src=cid:a8c0936faa69131141800cf3347d17a4/td) GJ Sniffer did not catch

RE: [sniffer] The SPAM bots?

2006-01-30 Thread Goran Jovanovic
Subject: Re: [sniffer] The SPAM bots? On Monday, January 30, 2006, 10:16:06 AM, Goran wrote: GJ Hi, GJ Are the bots working again? I am seeing a number of the STOCK pitches GJ coming through (the ones that use the picture attachment eg. GJ tdimg border=0 alt= GJ src

Re: [sniffer] Stock Market Spam Messages

2006-01-26 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, January 26, 2006, 11:22:40 AM, Jim wrote: JMJ I seem to be noticing a lot of spam messages recently that are stock ads for JMJ offshore companies; I seem to be getting a lot of these that are not being JMJ classified by sniffer. I have been forwarding these to the spam@ address,

RE: [sniffer] Stock Market Spam Messages

2006-01-26 Thread Jim Matuska Jr.
, 2006 8:53 AM To: Jim Matuska Jr. Subject: Re: [sniffer] Stock Market Spam Messages On Thursday, January 26, 2006, 11:22:40 AM, Jim wrote: JMJ I seem to be noticing a lot of spam messages recently that are stock ads for JMJ offshore companies; I seem to be getting a lot

Re: [sniffer] How can I

2006-01-19 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, January 19, 2006, 8:37:01 AM, Jeff wrote: JA JA JA I have been having a lot of problems with the rules since Friday. JA JA How can I see what rules are set for spamming. There are many thousands of rules. For security purposes we don't expose their content freely. If you

Re: [sniffer] nations blacklisted?

2006-01-19 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, January 19, 2006, 12:51:47 PM, David wrote: DP It seems I can not get mail from Brazil that does not fail the message DP sniffer test, regardless of content. DP Is this nation or any other totally black listed? I'm not aware of any rule that blocks any particular nation, nor any

RE: [sniffer] Rulebots gone wild

2006-01-19 Thread David Lewis-Waller
, January 19, 2006 9:15 AM To: Jeff Alexander Subject: Re: [sniffer] How can I On Thursday, January 19, 2006, 8:37:01 AM, Jeff wrote: JA JA JA I have been having a lot of problems with the rules since Friday. JA JA How can I see what rules are set for spamming. There are many

RE: [sniffer] Rollback of bot rules..

2006-01-19 Thread Dave Koontz
My bet is that either OB or WS trees of SURBL are the culprit. I've seen false postives from them before. Can your bot isolate the subs of the multi lookup and only use the more reliable ones like JP, SC, etc? Also, these are dynamic services and can change at any time... Sometimes in minutes.

RE: [sniffer] Help

2006-01-18 Thread Ali Resting
Hi, I am experiencing the very same problem. Regards, Ali -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Filippo PalmiliSent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 3:34 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: sniffer@SortMonster.comSubject: [sniffer]

Re: [sniffer] False Positives

2006-01-18 Thread Frederick Samarelli
Same with me. Last night there was a rules update and it fixed the problem. Check the date of your rules update. - Original Message - From: Ali Resting [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sniffer@sortmonster.com Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 8:57 AM Subject: [sniffer]

Re: [sniffer] False Positives

2006-01-18 Thread Darin Cox
] Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 8:42 AM Subject: Re: [sniffer] False Positives Same with me. Last night there was a rules update and it fixed the problem. Check the date of your rules update. - Original Message - From: Ali Resting [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sniffer@sortmonster.com Cc

Re: [sniffer] Help

2006-01-18 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, January 18, 2006, 8:34:15 AM, Filippo wrote: FP FP Hello, FP What's going on with rules? Today for 100 blocked by Sniffer FP more than 10 where really legitimate. FP Please advise. Everything should be functioning normally today. Please visit:

Re: [sniffer] False Positives

2006-01-18 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, January 18, 2006, 8:57:56 AM, Ali wrote: AR Hi, AR Over the last 2 days I have seen a major increase in false positives. AR Literally all hotmail and yahoo address are being caught by sniffer AR inclusive of other legit domains. AR Please confirm what may be causing this and what

Re: [sniffer] Help Help

2006-01-18 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, January 18, 2006, 11:06:44 AM, Filippo wrote: FP FP Hello, FP What's going on with rules? Today for 100 blocked by Sniffer FP more than 10 where really legitimate. Please visit: http://www.mail-archive.com/sniffer@sortmonster.com/msg02346.html and

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

2006-01-17 Thread Darrell (supp...@invariantsystems.com)
Overflow Queue Monitoring, SURBL/URI integration, MRTG Integration, and Log Parsers. - Original Message - From: Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sniffer@SortMonster.com Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 7:21 AM Subject: Re: [sniffer] Watch out... SURBL SORBS full of large ISPs

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: [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

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,

Re: [sniffer] lots of investment spam not being caught by sniffer...

2006-01-06 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, January 6, 2006, 2:09:12 PM, Chuck wrote: CS Hopefully the rulebase is being updated but we are getting slammed by this CS stuff. Stock push? I saw a bunch of broken stock push come through this morning (0330). Not getting any more through the traps. Also a lot of image based stock

RE: [sniffer] About Resellers, and the best laid plans of mice men...

2005-12-29 Thread Dave Koontz
Like others, I received the same special offer email off list. I've never heard of ComputerHouse. IMO, resellers should not be using this list to solicit business, either through a list posting or soliciting individual posters. I would think that sort of behavior goes against their reseller

RE: [sniffer] About Resellers, and the best laid plans of mice men...

2005-12-28 Thread Peer-to-Peer (Support)
Sorry papa _M Sorry John T Just want to see sniffer around in the future and got a little excited. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Pete McNeil Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 9:51 PM To: sniffer@sortmonster.com Subject: [sniffer] About

RE: [sniffer] Last chance to renew at the old price!

2005-12-27 Thread Barry@Declude
Customers who purchased Sniffer via Declude can look on their Host Records and the dates should be there. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Jones Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 1:31 PM To: sniffer@SortMonster.com Subject: Re

RE: [sniffer] Last chance to renew at the old price!

2005-12-27 Thread Fox, Thomas
To: sniffer@SortMonster.com Subject: RE: [sniffer] Last chance to renew at the old price! Pete, why over a 50% increase? That seems rather drastic -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pete McNeil Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 12:42

RE: [sniffer] Last chance to renew at the old price!

2005-12-27 Thread Michael Murdoch
Tel. 850-932-5338 x303 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fox, Thomas Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 1:03 PM To: sniffer@SortMonster.com Subject: RE: [sniffer] Last chance to renew at the old price! I said the same thing, and the response

RE: [sniffer] Last chance to renew at the old price!

2005-12-27 Thread Tech Support
results. Just 2 cents from a guy that rarely says anything :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Murdoch Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 2:14 PM To: sniffer@SortMonster.com Cc: Pete McNeil Subject: RE: [sniffer] Last chance to renew

RE: [sniffer] Last chance to renew at the old price!

2005-12-27 Thread Dan Horne
, like it or lump it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Koontz Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 1:57 PM To: sniffer@SortMonster.com Subject: RE: [sniffer] Last chance to renew at the old price! Pete, why over a 50% increase

RE: [sniffer] Last chance to renew at the old price!

2005-12-27 Thread Rick Robeson
: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 11:14 AM To: sniffer@SortMonster.com Cc: Pete McNeil Subject: RE: [sniffer] Last chance to renew at the old price! Importance: High Hi Folks, Actually, here is some more detail as to the reasons for the price increase. In addition, please bear in mind that that prices

RE: [sniffer] Last chance to renew at the old price!

2005-12-27 Thread Michael Murdoch
Of Rick Robeson Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 1:29 PM To: sniffer@SortMonster.com Subject: RE: [sniffer] Last chance to renew at the old price! We've always paid under the 'monthly' plan. How will this be affected? Should we switch to the yearly plan? Rick Robeson getlocalnews.com [EMAIL

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