Re: Lots of Polish spam

2015-02-25 Thread David Jones
From: Axb axb.li...@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 4:32 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Lots of Polish spam On 02/25/2015 01:42 AM, Alex Regan wrote: Hi, On 02/24/2015 07:06 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 25.02.2015 um

Forex spam from botnet

2015-02-25 Thread Marcin Mirosław
Hi! As I mentioned earlier I'm (and not only me but other users postmasters in Poland) getting a lot of spam from botnet. Usually it gets high scores but from time to time spam is delivered to mailbox. Because this spam is sended to many mailservers I think it could be worth to create official or

Blocking .exe in zips (was Re: Lots of Polish spam)

2015-02-25 Thread David F. Skoll
On Tue, 24 Feb 2015 23:06:02 +0100 Yves Goergen nospam.l...@unclassified.de wrote: If the mail server now blocks all .exe in .zip without actually scanning the contents, they're going to complain. At some point, you need to be firm and take care of your users' security. We run a commercial

Re: Lots of Polish spam

2015-02-25 Thread @lbutlr
On Feb 24, 2015, at 3:49 PM, Axb axb.li...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/24/2015 11:39 PM, LuKreme wrote: On Feb 24, 2015, at 15:24, Axb axb.li...@gmail.com wrote: *.pdf.zip is a dangerous one to block on sight - FP risk is huge Really? I've never seen a .pdf.zip that was legitimate. KDE:

Re: Forex spam from botnet

2015-02-25 Thread Benny Pedersen
On February 25, 2015 2:55:16 PM Marcin Mirosław mar...@mejor.pl wrote: http://pastebin.com/bAm2yk8z , http://pastebin.com/6zLjMtM8 . blacklist_uri_host businessanalyse.be blacklist_uri_host 143businesssecrets.com and blacklist_from domains that have spf-pass

Re: Lots of Polish spam

2015-02-25 Thread Bill Cole
On 24 Feb 2015, at 17:06, Yves Goergen wrote: I can't block all archives with executable files in them. Then in all seriousness: why bother filtering email specifically for malware? Email is an inherently untrustworthy transport medium. Any sort of executable received via email that is

Re: Forex spam from botnet

2015-02-25 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 25 Feb 2015, Benny Pedersen wrote: On February 25, 2015 2:55:16 PM Marcin Mirosław mar...@mejor.pl wrote: http://pastebin.com/bAm2yk8z , http://pastebin.com/6zLjMtM8 . blacklist_uri_host businessanalyse.be blacklist_uri_host 143businesssecrets.com That risks whack-a-mole. Are all

Re: Forex spam from botnet

2015-02-25 Thread Marcin Mirosław
W dniu 2015-02-25 o 19:17, Benny Pedersen pisze: On February 25, 2015 2:55:16 PM Marcin Mirosław mar...@mejor.pl wrote: http://pastebin.com/bAm2yk8z , http://pastebin.com/6zLjMtM8 . blacklist_uri_host businessanalyse.be blacklist_uri_host 143businesssecrets.com and blacklist_from

Re: Forex spam from botnet

2015-02-25 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 25.02.2015 um 19:27 schrieb Benny Pedersen: On February 25, 2015 7:22:40 PM John Hardin jhar...@impsec.org wrote: That risks whack-a-mole. Are all of the spams referencing the same host, and is that host *not* already hitting URIBL_BLACK? i long time dropped uribl_black since so much

Re: Forex spam from botnet

2015-02-25 Thread Benny Pedersen
On February 25, 2015 7:22:40 PM John Hardin jhar...@impsec.org wrote: That risks whack-a-mole. Are all of the spams referencing the same host, and is that host *not* already hitting URIBL_BLACK? i long time dropped uribl_black since so much spam is not listed, sending samples to them takes

Re: Blocking .exe in zips (was Re: Lots of Polish spam)

2015-02-25 Thread Dave Warren
On 2015-02-25 12:18, David F. Skoll wrote: On Tue, 24 Feb 2015 23:06:02 +0100 Yves Goergen nospam.l...@unclassified.de wrote: If the mail server now blocks all .exe in .zip without actually scanning the contents, they're going to complain. ... So far, no major complaints. The few who really

Re: Lots of Polish spam

2015-02-25 Thread Dave Warren
On 2015-02-25 11:42, Bill Cole wrote: On 24 Feb 2015, at 17:06, Yves Goergen wrote: I can't block all archives with executable files in them. Then in all seriousness: why bother filtering email specifically for malware? I second this. Either go all the way, or don't do it, it's worse to

Re: Lots of Polish spam

2015-02-25 Thread Yves Goergen
Am 25.02.2015 um 20:42 schrieb Bill Cole: On 24 Feb 2015, at 17:06, Yves Goergen wrote: I can't block all archives with executable files in them. Then in all seriousness: why bother filtering email specifically for malware? Email is an inherently untrustworthy transport medium. Any sort of

Re: Lots of Polish spam

2015-02-25 Thread Yves Goergen
Am 25.02.2015 um 23:04 schrieb Dave Warren: I second this. Either go all the way, or don't do it, it's worse to leave users with a false sense of security. A mentality of The virus scanner says it's safe, so it won't do any harm is exceedingly dangerous. The virus scanner doesn't say anything

Re: Lots of Polish spam

2015-02-25 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 25.02.2015 um 23:15 schrieb Yves Goergen: Am 25.02.2015 um 20:42 schrieb Bill Cole: On 24 Feb 2015, at 17:06, Yves Goergen wrote: I can't block all archives with executable files in them. Then in all seriousness: why bother filtering email specifically for malware? Email is an

Re: Blocking .exe in zips (was Re: Lots of Polish spam)

2015-02-25 Thread Yves Goergen
Am 25.02.2015 um 23:04 schrieb Dave Warren: On 2015-02-25 12:18, David F. Skoll wrote: So far, no major complaints. The few who really need to send such files rename them to .ex_ before zipping them up. We have a fairly large userbase (more than 140,000) so I think we would have heard lots of

Re: Lots of Polish spam

2015-02-25 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 25.02.2015 um 23:23 schrieb Yves Goergen: Am 25.02.2015 um 23:04 schrieb Dave Warren: I second this. Either go all the way, or don't do it, it's worse to leave users with a false sense of security. A mentality of The virus scanner says it's safe, so it won't do any harm is exceedingly

RE: Blocking .exe in zips (was Re: Lots of Polish spam)

2015-02-25 Thread Kevin Miller
That's what I did. I went with Zendto also as David Jones recommended. It works great, and solves both the restricted file issue as well as an email size problem. It's not unusual for users to attach half a dozen photos to a message these days and never realize they're 8-10 MB each...

no BAYES checking

2015-02-25 Thread James
I don't think I have the Bayesian filter working. This is some spam that wasn't marked as spam, shouldn't one of the tests be BAYES_00? X-Spam-Status: No, score=4.5 required=5.0 tests=FREEMAIL_FROM,FREEMAIL_REPLYTO, FSL_MY_NAME_IS,HTML_MESSAGE,RDNS_DYNAMIC,T_OBFU_JPG_ATTACH autolearn=no

Re: no BAYES checking

2015-02-25 Thread Dave Funk
On Wed, 25 Feb 2015, James wrote: I don't think I have the Bayesian filter working. This is some spam that wasn't marked as spam, shouldn't one of the tests be BAYES_00? X-Spam-Status: No, score=4.5 required=5.0 tests=FREEMAIL_FROM,FREEMAIL_REPLYTO,

Re: no BAYES checking

2015-02-25 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 25 Feb 2015, James wrote: I don't think I have the Bayesian filter working. You don't: Feb 25 21:07:55.366 [27839] dbg: bayes: not available for scanning, only 0 ham(s) in bayes DB 200 Why does it say not enough ham? Because you need to train ham *as well as* spam. How else

Re: no BAYES checking

2015-02-25 Thread Benny Pedersen
On February 26, 2015 3:36:02 AM John Hardin jhar...@impsec.org wrote: Feb 25 21:07:55.366 [27839] dbg: bayes: not available for scanning, only 0 ham(s) in bayes DB 200 Why does it say not enough ham? Because you need to train ham *as well as* spam. How else will it be able to tell the

Re: Lots of Polish spam

2015-02-25 Thread David Jones
From: Yves Goergen nospam.l...@unclassified.de Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 4:15 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Lots of Polish spam Am 25.02.2015 um 20:42 schrieb Bill Cole: On 24 Feb 2015, at 17:06, Yves Goergen wrote: I can't

Re: Lots of Polish spam

2015-02-25 Thread Dave Warren
On 2015-02-25 14:23, Yves Goergen wrote: Am 25.02.2015 um 23:04 schrieb Dave Warren: I second this. Either go all the way, or don't do it, it's worse to leave users with a false sense of security. A mentality of The virus scanner says it's safe, so it won't do any harm is exceedingly

Re: Lots of Polish spam

2015-02-25 Thread Axb
On 02/25/2015 01:42 AM, Alex Regan wrote: Hi, On 02/24/2015 07:06 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 25.02.2015 um 00:56 schrieb Alex Regan: Sophos reports it as Troj/Tinba-O, like most others on virustotal.com ClamAV does not detect anything suspicious. I really thought clamav was much better.