[sniffer] Re: Bad Rule: 1604021

2007-10-16 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Thanks for reporting this, Pete! 

My numbers were more extreme than Pi-Web's.

That bad rule triggered on 18,023 messages yesterday.

Due to the rest of my spam software, two-thirds were either passed (as
presumed ham) or deleted (as very spammy).

So the one-third that was held, I re-scanned today.

MessageSniffer today would catch 6,419, and ignore 218.

Of the 218 that MessageSniffer would ignore today, 17 are spam and the
rest really are ham.


Andrew.



 -Original Message-
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 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pete McNeil
 Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 1:00 PM
 To: Message Sniffer Community
 Subject: [sniffer] Bad Rule: 1604021
 
 Hello Sniffer Folks,
 
 This is an alert about a potentially bad rule 1604021.
 
 The rule was an abstract pattern for some of today's image spam.
 
 Indications are that the final coding was too broad. The rule was in
 place for approximately 5 hours ending about 30 minutes ago. Some
 differences in timing are inevitable since all rulebases are compiled
 individually.
 
 If you have the ability to release and rescan from quarantine based on
 SNF rule IDs then we recommend executing that process against this
 rule id: 1604021.
 
 Hope this helps,
 
 Thanks,
 
 _M
 
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 Chief Scientist,
 Arm Research Labs, LLC.
 
 
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[sniffer] Re: Bad Rule: 1604021

2007-10-15 Thread Pi-Web - Frank Jensen

Hi Pete,

We have fileret out 169 mails based on this rule.
Most are spam.

I have just collected the latest rulebase - it is from 20.00,
The false positive are still taken as spam.
If you want the 169 please let me know.

--22:37:49--  http://www.sortmonster.net/Sniffer/Updates/xx.snf
   = `xx.new.gz'
Resolving www.sortmonster.net... done.
Connecting to www.sortmonster.net[207.97.242.65]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [application/x-sortmonster]
Server file no newer than local file `xxx.snf' -- not retrieving.





Hello Sniffer Folks,

This is an alert about a potentially bad rule 1604021.

The rule was an abstract pattern for some of today's image spam.

Indications are that the final coding was too broad. The rule was in
place for approximately 5 hours ending about 30 minutes ago. Some
differences in timing are inevitable since all rulebases are compiled
individually.

If you have the ability to release and rescan from quarantine based on
SNF rule IDs then we recommend executing that process against this
rule id: 1604021.

Hope this helps,

Thanks,

_M




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[sniffer] Re: Bad Rule: 1604021

2007-10-15 Thread Pi-Web - Frank Jensen

Hi Pete,

Checked all manuelly, 7 of 155 was good.

The new rule database don't match on any of the 7.
All 155 is matched as spam.



Monday, October 15, 2007, 4:43:03 PM, you wrote:


Hi Pete,



We have fileret out 169 mails based on this rule.
Most are spam.


That's good to hear.

Thanks!

_M




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