Re: [SARE] Whitelist.cf updated

2005-05-25 Thread Jeff Chan
hes these two items, then the email is whitelisted. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: dissapointed >> dummy MX record

2005-05-25 Thread Jeff Chan
ys to discover. However my original reply was referring to an MX record that did not connect to a server of any kind, fake or real. That arrangement some spammers seem to detect eventually. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: dissapointed >> dummy MX record

2005-05-25 Thread Jeff Chan
be > sending an unused domain any mail. > Honeyd.org has a live statistics page that has known spammer IPs. I > would love > it if they could make a DNS RBL out of this information! Some well-known, widely-used, existing RBLs are based on such data. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailt

Re: Cannot get rid of new online pharmacy spams

2005-05-25 Thread Jeff Chan
erdomain.com . The newer versions of SpamAssassin will detect these successfully because the domain names are listed in SURBLs and new SA versions are no longer fooled by this obfuscation technique. Quick answer: upgrade! Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: dissapointed

2005-05-24 Thread Jeff Chan
se something like postgrey to delay new connections: http://isg.ee.ethz.ch/tools/postgrey/ Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Additional SPAM recognition method

2005-05-24 Thread Jeff Chan
n SA rule to detect URIs that have ridiculously large numbers of subdomain levels? If not, perhaps it could be useful (perhaps even more useful than wildcard DNS). Note that it may not be feasible to resolve domains found in message body URIs to even detect wildcards. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Additional SPAM recognition method

2005-05-24 Thread Jeff Chan
faq.html#numbered "Are there plans to offer an RBL list with the domain names resolved into IP addresses?" Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Additional SPAM recognition method

2005-05-24 Thread Jeff Chan
oo.fr, yahooo.com (belongs to yahoo). In addition wildcards seem to be pretty common on low-end shared web hosting accounts, presumably for the reason proposed earlier in this thread: really simple load sharing across multiple web servers. In other words sometimes it may be used as a convenience on low end hosting. I'll send Paul my results off-list. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: new meds spam agaianst SARS viruses? this may help

2005-05-23 Thread Jeff Chan
oney. Presumably the bad guys like to avoid that so they ask for the private number as part of their scam. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: blocking url's

2005-05-18 Thread Jeff Chan
g, it tags messages that look like spam. Then it's up to some other program to decide what to do with the message. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-18 Thread Jeff Chan
S. where probably fewer than 1 in 10 people has any idea what a "World Cup" is. Superbowl they've heard of. World Cup not. ;-) More likely gmx.net, being a German ISP, spotted the spams earlier, could actually read them, got offended, and decided to filter. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: against this spam mail...

2005-05-18 Thread Jeff Chan
il02 sendmail[22525]: j4I6B6i22525: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > User unknown This is called a "dictionary attack". If you search for that and sendmail, you may find some answers. It's not specifically a SpamAssassin question. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

New? URI obfuscation: backslash at end of URI

2005-05-17 Thread Jeff Chan
tch that catches just : at the end of URIs, etc. also catches these. Cheers, Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-15 Thread Jeff Chan
whitelist them. Here are some others we've whitelisted: stern.de rp-online.de fhtw-berlin.de berlin1.de bz.berlin1.de bz-berlin.de gofeminin.de taz.de berlinonline.de zdf.de [...] Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: {SPAM} Drug SPAM problem..any fixes?

2005-05-14 Thread Jeff Chan
ts. We're working on reducing the latency of SURBLs. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Evading URI checks

2005-05-14 Thread Jeff Chan
also means they can't use clickable links, which may decrease their response rates. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: URIDNSBL Scores

2005-05-13 Thread Jeff Chan
e on the SURBL site, they usually mention type "body" which won't work with 3.0.0 . A newer version is probably better to use, BTW. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: URIDNSBL Scores

2005-05-13 Thread Jeff Chan
up > (multi.s > urbl.org.:blahblahcutie.info) > debug: URIDNSBL: queries completed: 2 started: 2 > debug: URIDNSBL: queries active: at Thu May 12 15:14:52 2005 queries completed: 2 looks ok to me, and the SURBL queries got the right result, but they didn't get scored. That's indeed odd. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: [SPAM-TAG] Re: SpamCopURI not working

2005-05-12 Thread Jeff Chan
my previous response. multi is the only list that should be checked. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Godaddy selling e-mails ?

2005-05-11 Thread Jeff Chan
west ? Does your address appear in a domain registration? The registrations are public after all. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: [SPAM-TAG] RE: SpamCopURI not working, was RE: More Messed Up www URLs

2005-05-11 Thread Jeff Chan
onfused SA 3.0 too. Let's ask Eric Kolve to please update SpamCopURI to ignore these extra characters that appear at the end of the host portion of URIs, like SA 3.1 now does, as a result of this bug fix: http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4191 Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Subscribing to spam lists

2005-05-10 Thread Jeff Chan
te. Spammers use > software harvesting programs such as robots or spiders to > record e-mail addresses listed on Web sites, including both > personal Web pages and institutional (corporate or non-profit) > Web pages. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: smart spam using =2Eco=2Euk

2005-05-10 Thread Jeff Chan
Cheers, Jeff C. > --- start spam --- [...] > href=3D"http://www=2Ebroadberry=2Eco=2Euk/intro=2Ehtml";> he= > ight=3D77=20 > src=3D"http://www=2Ebroadberry=2Eco=2Euk/offers/BDSLogo=2Ejpg"; > = > width=3D266=20 -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: SpamCopURI not working, was RE: More Messed Up www URLs

2005-05-10 Thread Jeff Chan
pletely rebuild our spam > scanner, but I just don't have the time right now... so if anyone has any > suggestions on things to get this box working more or less intact, I'm all > ears. Have you tried spamassassin -D < some_message and spamassassin --lint? Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: More Messed Up www URLs

2005-05-07 Thread Jeff Chan
call that SpamCopURI is technically a patch and should be installed after SA, so SpamCopURI can patch SA. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Fwd: [SURBL-Discuss] Brief problem with ab.surbl.org

2005-05-05 Thread Jeff Chan
From: Jeff Chan To: SURBL Discus Date: Thursday, May 5, 2005, 12:39:58 AM Subject: [SURBL-Discuss] Brief problem with ab.surbl.org FWIW there was a brief error where .com got into ab.surbl.org and that caused it to hit all .com domains. This problem lasted an hour or two today and happened

Re: [SPAM-TAG] Re: [SPAM-TAG] Content type allowing spammers to evade URIBL

2005-05-05 Thread Jeff Chan
On Thursday, May 5, 2005, 12:10:32 AM, Jeff Chan wrote: > On Wednesday, May 4, 2005, 9:21:11 PM, Craig Baird wrote: >> Today, I've received a number of spams containing a domain that is listed on >> almost all the SURBL lists. I've recieved around 10 of these today, and

Re: [SPAM-TAG] Content type allowing spammers to evade URIBL

2005-05-05 Thread Jeff Chan
3]-087[3]-- > --- End Spam --- > If you'll notice, the content type is shown as ";text/plain;". It seems that > the semicolons are causing Spamassassin not to parse the mail properly. If I > run the message through SA as-is, it hits on no SURBLs. However, if I remove

Re: [SURBL] how to report

2005-05-05 Thread Jeff Chan
On Wednesday, May 4, 2005, 8:37:45 AM, martin smith wrote: M>>From: Jeff Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] M>>A good way to report spams is to use SpamCop. The SpamCop M>>spamvertised site data goes into sc.surbl.org: M>> M>> http://www.surbl.org/lists.html#sc M>

Re: [SURBL] how to report

2005-05-04 Thread Jeff Chan
e SpamCop. The SpamCop spamvertised site data goes into sc.surbl.org: http://www.surbl.org/lists.html#sc Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: rulesemporium.com outage again?????

2005-05-03 Thread Jeff Chan
27;s got something to do with the recent outbreak of Sober.P? Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Phishing filtering?

2005-05-03 Thread Jeff Chan
fo at our site.) Cheers, Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Observation on secondary MX

2005-05-03 Thread Jeff Chan
a fake second backup MX (third MX record), but after a while spam levels to the real backup MX seemed to come back up. Gonna try postgrey methinks: http://isg.ee.ethz.ch/tools/postgrey/ Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Bayes header results

2005-04-30 Thread Jeff Chan
x27;re looking into that. http://www.superbusinessmodel .com http://www.superreply .net/ar/r.php?un=1530566 Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: FW: tablets and chemists

2005-04-29 Thread Jeff Chan
On Friday, April 29, 2005, 7:42:48 AM, Chuck Campbell wrote: > I want to switch, but will need to get Bayes up to speed before cutting over > to the newer version for production. You can migrate your old Bayes DB IIRC. Please see the Wiki. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: FW: tablets and chemists

2005-04-29 Thread Jeff Chan
, then multi will work. The DNS infrastructure is the same. Therefore please use multi. :-) Cheers, Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: tablets and chemists

2005-04-29 Thread Jeff Chan
i.surbl.org" list? > --Rob McEwen Absolutely. Everyone should be using multi.surbl.org with either SpamCopURI or urirhssub. It's a combined list that checks all of them with one DNS lookup. http://www.surbl.org/lists.html#multi The examples for JP on the Quick Start page both use mult

Re: tablets and chemists

2005-04-29 Thread Jeff Chan
http://www.surbl.org/quickstart.html Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 Released

2005-04-29 Thread Jeff Chan
;) > Your pattern recognition skills remain top-notch. ;-) > Daniel Yeah, I hear 22:22:22 is definite spamware sign.... ;-) LOL! Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 Released

2005-04-29 Thread Jeff Chan
pamassassin.apache.org, >>dev@spamassassin.apache.org >> Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 22:22:22 -0500 (20:22 PDT) > > check it out! was that deliberate? ;) > - --j. Nah, that would be too, too, too. ;-) Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Low detection rate

2005-04-27 Thread Jeff Chan
it's how my simple zone generation script adds the testpoints to all the lists currently. Bottom line: yes, it's normal. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: SA config recommendations to block these spammers?

2005-04-27 Thread Jeff Chan
gt; coolestrxever.com.multi.surbl.org has address 127.0.0.80 > Will try a bit more debugging shortly, not convinced it's parsing the > message correctly. > Rob Is your Net::DNS current? Are you calling SpamAssassin so as to use network tests? http://www.surbl.org/faq.html#nettest Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: [SPAM-TAG] Does anyone have a rule to get rid of these types of messages

2005-04-26 Thread Jeff Chan
SURBLs will catch these because of: > href="http://ukbyfzovkfmz.net&saaplurfngdush5utq4x%2Erancejknfl%2Ecom/";>C8lick > her9e for our pi1ll of the day s5pecial! http://www.surbl.org/ Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: [SURBL-Discuss] RE: Research wanted: age of spam gang URI domains

2005-04-23 Thread Jeff Chan
On Friday, April 22, 2005, 7:27:17 AM, John Delisle wrote: > Even if data re average age of the domains, wouldn't they just start > registering them earlier so as to not match that pattern? Yeah that's always a possibility. But there seems to be some evidence that a lot of spam domains don't get

Re: [SURBL-Discuss] RE: Research wanted: age of spam gang URI domains

2005-04-23 Thread Jeff Chan
On Friday, April 22, 2005, 9:27:56 AM, Steven Champeon wrote: > See: > http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/2005-01/msg00225.html > for one particular spamgang (dunno who); seems to be entirely dedicated > to sending out spam in multipart with one redirector link (ends in .html, > with embedd

Research wanted: age of spam gang URI domains

2005-04-21 Thread Jeff Chan
Does anyone have research or references for the age profiles of domains appearing in the URIs of spam gang (i.e. Ralsky, Lindsay, Richter, etc.) spams? In other words, how old are the domains of sites being spamvertised *by spam gangs*? (By age I mean how long ago they were (most recently) create

Re: Interesting RBL problem

2005-04-21 Thread Jeff Chan
On Thursday, April 21, 2005, 5:12:37 AM, Mike Grice wrote: > why would SA > time it out? The system should use the hostfile in preference to DNS > (e.g., in nsswitch.conf), but for some bizarre reason this lookup isn't. BIND does the forwarding to rbldnsd. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan

Re: Interesting RBL problem

2005-04-21 Thread Jeff Chan
On Thursday, April 21, 2005, 4:26:46 AM, Mike Grice wrote: > On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 03:55 -0700, Jeff Chan wrote: >> On Thursday, April 21, 2005, 3:46:35 AM, Mike Grice wrote: >> >>From /etc/hosts: >> > 127.0.0.2 dnsbl-sorbs-net.dnsbl.plus.net >>

Re: Interesting RBL problem

2005-04-21 Thread Jeff Chan
On Thursday, April 21, 2005, 3:46:35 AM, Mike Grice wrote: > On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 03:01 -0700, Jeff Chan wrote: >> Did you remember to forward the queries for your local zones to >> the rbldnsd server? E.g.: > Yeah. All the other zones are working, just not SORBS by the lo

Re: Interesting RBL problem

2005-04-21 Thread Jeff Chan
p://www.surbl.org/rbldnsd-bind-freebsd.html http://njabl.org/rsync.html Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Is there a new source of spam?

2005-04-20 Thread Jeff Chan
150 to 170 a day up to about 220 today.) > {^_^} Well there seem to be new viruses around. That may perhaps correlate with expanded botnets used to send spam. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Whoa-new spam today

2005-04-19 Thread Jeff Chan
ngoddi If those are advertising an actual site on geocities, then please report them to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] so Yahoo can shut them down. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Need for a new rule?

2005-04-17 Thread Jeff Chan
p|aced in our membership, p|ease go here or send a blank > e mail with No Thanks in the subject to st0ck1007 @yahoo.com So it's time to adjust/modify that filter again. (I guess he was behind on his reading. Hi spammy! ;-) Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: 0 Hits on blatant spam

2005-04-15 Thread Jeff Chan
t no header > rules that look for the word with an "ing" on the end of it. ... The spam advertises a presumptive porn site on geocities. Please forward the spam to yahoo so they can shut it down: geo-abuse@ yahoo-inc.com (without the space) Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: random rudeness!

2005-04-13 Thread Jeff Chan
5-20 days for the > domain to die, bad ones can take 3-4 months; But you can blacklist them in > almost no time. > Good luck and have fun hunting (nobody spams my domains and gets off > clean!), > Paul Shupak > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > P.S. The "real" finds are the rare invalid netblock or ASN, but that can wait > until you learn to check domains. This really belongs in some kind of spam-fighting FAQ or howto somewhere. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Recommendation on SARE rules to add.

2005-04-13 Thread Jeff Chan
might be helpful to see a small, edited, sampling of the FNs you're seeing. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: [SURBL-Discuss] More spams with Zdnet redirector

2005-04-10 Thread Jeff Chan
On Saturday, April 9, 2005, 10:14:27 AM, List User wrote: > I've begun sending them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - no bounce, but no > response > either. Starting tomorrow, *all* the CNet editors get a copy. Todays below. > Paul Shupak > [EMAIL PROTECTED] LOL, but I can't reall

SpamAssassin DNS/SURBL bug possibly discovered, fixed

2005-04-08 Thread Jeff Chan
See: http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4249 http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3997 It would be interesting to see if folks could try the patches added to the tickets, try a slow DNS resolution (longer than the timeout of 3 seconds) and see if they can duplicate/elimi

Re: Net::DNS trouble

2005-04-08 Thread Jeff Chan
of versions, paths, etc. and if those methods are mixed *for the same program* they can get confused. One solution is to always use CPAN, always use tarballs, always use subversion, etc. I.e. pick one and stick with it. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Annoying Job Offer spam

2005-04-06 Thread Jeff Chan
On Wednesday, April 6, 2005, 8:12:51 AM, Ron McKeating wrote: > Is it just us or is there a flood of spams subject job offer, is there > any of the rulesets that take care of this ? I'm not getting any of those, but I am seeing a lot of stock spams. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAI

Re: EFF Newsletter as SPAM

2005-04-06 Thread Jeff Chan
n-up for newsletters > without verifying the email address first. It's not inconceivable that > they are, therefore, sending unsolicited emails to people who didn't > sign up. > Rod. If that's correct, then maybe someone should mention to them that's a very poor practice that leads to abuse Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: RulesDuJour error updating bigevil.cf

2005-04-05 Thread Jeff Chan
RBL instead. A good suggestion! :-) Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: RulesDuJour error updating bigevil.cf

2005-04-04 Thread Jeff Chan
On Sunday, April 3, 2005, 10:34:12 AM, Pete Geenhuizen wrote: > 2. Any idea how do I go about changing RDJ and bigevil.cf over to use > ws.surbl.org? Yes, please use ws.surbl.org instead: http://www.surbl.org/quickstart.html Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: EFF Newsletter as SPAM

2005-04-02 Thread Jeff Chan
ight. There are a couple of differences last nights gave 0.8 for the > auto-whitelist, while tonights gave -0.0, last nights only hit on PYZOR while > tonights hit on PYZOR and DCC: Perhaps DCC took these out. Please ask Pyzor to do the same. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: EFF Newsletter as SPAM

2005-04-01 Thread Jeff Chan
of 5.0. I've saved some of the > previous editions and am wondering if I ran sa-learn --ham on these would it > eventually make enough of a difference to have these tagged as ham? What is it triggering on? Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: my girlfriend is getting ticked :)

2005-03-31 Thread Jeff Chan
Set your trust path correctly: (quoteing Matt Kettler:) > Please see the Wiki: > http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/TrustPath/ > > and look up trusted_networks in man Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf And enable network tests: http://www.surbl.org/faq.html#nettest And things should work much

Re: my girlfriend is getting ticked :)

2005-03-31 Thread Jeff Chan
web servers. So it won't match most of the IP address RBL checks a plain old MTA would do. SURBLs are meant to match message body URIs, not mail senders. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Yet another redirector

2005-03-29 Thread Jeff Chan
On Tuesday, March 29, 2005, 1:08:43 AM, Jeff Chan wrote: > On Tuesday, March 29, 2005, 12:38:25 AM, Alex Broens wrote: >> Good Morning! >> New redir? >> -- >> For more information or to have a broker contact you please visit: >> http://g.msn.com/0MNBUS0

Re: Effectiveness

2005-03-24 Thread Jeff Chan
s is a change from SpamAssassin 3.0.0, where body above was > previously header. Here is the changelog reference: > > r54022 | felicity | 2004-10-07 22:21:30 + (Thu, 07 Oct 2004) | 1 line > > bug 3734: uridnsbl rules work on body data, not header data, so change &g

Re: Effectiveness

2005-03-24 Thread Jeff Chan
ES_POISON_NXM SARE_OEM > SARE_RANDOM SARE_HEADER_ABUSE SARE_CODING_HTML"; If SURBLs are active you should be detecting at least 90% of spams (more like 99+%). The rules above are SARE rules, not SURBL ones, BTW. In order to use SURBLs you need to have Network tests enabled: http://www.

Re: Phishing attempts getting through.

2005-03-23 Thread Jeff Chan
rough is because > I've set up MailWatch for MailScanner(works great, makes it easy to see > what's going on). Try using SURBLs: http://www.surbl.org/ specifically: http://www.surbl.org/lists.html#ph Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: ZDNET redirecting to spammer websites?

2005-03-22 Thread Jeff Chan
red domains like zdnet.com and not subdomains. Obviously we're not going to blacklist zdnet.com; it has too many legitimate uses. 2. Similarly we can't list chkpt.zdnet.com. It's being abused, but it clearly has legitimate uses too. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: ZDNET redirecting to spammer websites?

2005-03-22 Thread Jeff Chan
On Monday, March 21, 2005, 9:43:02 PM, Jeff Chan wrote: > On Monday, March 21, 2005, 7:34:56 AM, Larry Rosenbaum wrote: >> We received a drug spam containing the following URL: >> http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/supposedtoallow/fdl%2ev%69%61%67%73.co%6d/p/b/kmioa >> This URL w

Re: ZDNET redirecting to spammer websites?

2005-03-22 Thread Jeff Chan
at least filter it so spammers get denied or flagged: http://www.surbl.org/redirect.html Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: New redirector: www.nate.com

2005-03-22 Thread Jeff Chan
rlier. It's being abused very similarly to the zdnet redirector. We've tried to contact nate.com and KISA in Korea, but may not be getting through. Does anyone have good contacts in Korea or who can write to them in Korean? Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: ZDNET redirecting to spammer websites?

2005-03-22 Thread Jeff Chan
t; www.simply-rx.net). As far as I know, the SA SURBL check will check > zdnet.com, not the spammer domain viags.com. What is going on here, and > what should we do about it? > Larry Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Porn Spam

2005-03-21 Thread Jeff Chan
> coming out to target porn. Is it ready? Anyone have any advise? Is there a > good list of known spamming porn domains we could plug into hosts.deny or > something? Try SURBLs: http://www.surbl.org/ Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Spammers Target Secondary MX hosts?

2005-03-21 Thread Jeff Chan
e little downside. I.e. @ IN MX 5 realprimary.domain.com @ IN MX 10 realbackup.domain.com @ IN MX 20 fakebackup.domain.com Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: OT: Re: Spammers Target Secondary MX hosts?

2005-03-19 Thread Jeff Chan
delays so if the mail from the same triple comes back > after a specified timeout, it'll be accepted. Yep, a couple that I was pointed to are: http://isg.ee.ethz.ch/tools/postgrey/ http://policyd.sourceforge.net/ Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

OT: Re: Spammers Target Secondary MX hosts?

2005-03-19 Thread Jeff Chan
nailed down a little tighter than the primaries. We're applying more RBLs to our backup server than our primary MXer. What was the trick for making a mail server delay or reject responses the first time an IP connects? I've heard this is very effective against spamware/zombies, etc. We're using Postfix, so this is definitely off topic. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Network Tests

2005-03-19 Thread Jeff Chan
luding ones that belong to spammers.) Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: OT: SURBL usage for content-filters like SquidGuard?

2005-03-18 Thread Jeff Chan
ould be pretty good... Bill allows web grabs of sa-blacklist, but SURBLs are usually used though DNS query or rsync only for high volume mail servers. You may want to discuss this further on the SURBL discussion list: http://lists.surbl.org/ Cheers, Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: URI Tests and Japanese Chars (solved)

2005-03-17 Thread Jeff Chan
etween what's going into the backends > (the SBL and SURBL uribls) and what we're matching on the other end. > At least for SBL, it's definitely problematic, since a SBL escalation > (of mail relays) will blocklist mail that *mentions* that domain! Yes, in which case what we have in URIDNSBL are actually dealing with only web and ftp as opposed to more complete URI handling. As Justin notes that is a proper match for what are in SBL and SURBLs. It also corresponds well to URIs that appear in spam. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Blacklisting embedded URLs

2005-03-17 Thread Jeff Chan
rs: > Network hooha and DNS are all properly enabled and yet... doing nothing > valuable seems to be happening as far as I can tell. The empty list of > domains to query seems to be a big clue that something is very wrong. >>debug: URIDNSBL: domains to query: Yes, that could b

Re: URI Tests and Japanese Chars (solved)

2005-03-17 Thread Jeff Chan
clude in the ticket the text that it triggered on. http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/ Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: [SPAM-TAG] rule didn't fire

2005-03-17 Thread Jeff Chan
e CF_BAD_URL4 .net Junk site > I received a piece of mail containing the string >http://www.gh6.net/ > Yet the rule did not fire Don't make a rule, use SURBLs. This one is listed five times over: gh6.net on lists [sc][ws][ob][ab][jp], See: http://www.surbl.org/lists.html J

Re: Blacklisting embedded URLs

2005-03-17 Thread Jeff Chan
etwork tests". You only need to have it configured in init.pre (I > think's commented out by default). I assume you have to have > "dns_available yes". Test it with spamassassin -D. Yes, what Kai said. Run: spamassassin -D < message_to_test and look at the output.

Re: URI Tests and Japanese Chars (solved)

2005-03-16 Thread Jeff Chan
not one ;-) will speak up about this. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: URI Tests and Japanese Chars (solved)

2005-03-16 Thread Jeff Chan
are at times overbroad. Name servers for gov.ru and spb.ru for example are listed (ns.rtcomm.ru and ns1.relcom.ru respectively). Listings like those can cause false positives, and I personally object to deliberately harming innocent bystanders to "pressure" ISPs. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: [SPAM-TAG] SpamAssassin, running on "mail.dailyhills.com" ...

2005-03-16 Thread Jeff Chan
On Tuesday, March 15, 2005, 9:27:50 PM, Vicki Brown wrote: > Does anyone else find this just too absurdly silly for words? > Although I guess it surely does prove the point Jeff Chan made for URIDNSBL > and SURBL - most eloquently in fact :-) >>SpamAssassin, running on "mail.

Re: [SPAM-TAG] Blacklisting embedded URLs

2005-03-16 Thread Jeff Chan
amassassin.apache.org/full/3.0.x/dist/lib/Mail/SpamAssassin/Plugin/URIDNSBL.pm http://www.surbl.org/ which are built into SpamAssassin 3 and enabled by default if network tests are enabled. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Sudden spam to this email address

2005-03-16 Thread Jeff Chan
RBL eval:check_uridnsbl('URIBL_JP_SURBL') describe URIBL_JP_SURBL Has URI in JP at http://www.surbl.org/lists.html tflagsURIBL_JP_SURBL net score URIBL_JP_SURBL4.0 They tend to catch new domains pretty quickly. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Sudden spam to this email address

2005-03-15 Thread Jeff Chan
here. > List harvesting is a bonus. Well when they can sell spams that don't advertise a web site for the same price as those that do, let us know. Until then SURBLs have them. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Is it possible to use SURBL without enabling all network tests?

2005-03-15 Thread Jeff Chan
A friend who wishes to remain anonymous forwarded me this patch and note: > Jeff, Saw the thread on sa-users list about using SURBL without other > networks > > Attached is a ugly patch which I think might do the trick. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://w

Re: [SURBL-Discuss] Fw: TKO Notice: Urgent Fraud Investigation

2005-03-14 Thread Jeff Chan
On Thursday, February 17, 2005, 4:46:28 PM, Jeff Chan wrote: > IMO The correct answer is for eBay not to have an open redirector > or for them to protect it better, for example as Matthew suggests. > We could ask them follow the lead of other redirection sites and > use SURBLs to ch

Re: Was: List of spamvertised sites sent via zombies, open proxies, etc.?

2005-03-13 Thread Jeff Chan
It would probably help if I explained that I brought up two different but related ides in quick succession: 1. Asking for URI domains of messages sent through zombies, open relays, open proxies, etc. detected by XBL that mentioned SURBL URIs. 2. Asking for URI domains of messages sent through z

Re: Was: List of spamvertised sites sent via zombies, open proxies, etc.?

2005-03-13 Thread Jeff Chan
have to maintain a whitelist like you do now for people like > w3c.org who are always being abused (or the phishing spam target companies, > whose own pictures and logos usually appear, or newspapers and magazines > who end up in 419s). Yes our whitelist always applies, and additional proc

Re: [SURBL-Discuss] Re: Was: List of spamvertised sites sent via zombies, open proxies, etc.?

2005-03-13 Thread Jeff Chan
reliable list of compromised hosts. Other lists like list.dsbl.org may be ok too, but those are the only two RBLs I have a lot of confidence in. The goal would not be to get all data but to get all reliable data. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Was: List of spamvertised sites sent via zombies, open proxies, etc.?

2005-03-13 Thread Jeff Chan
7;m asking to look for XBL hits, then take the URIs from messages that hit XBL. In other words I want to get the sites that are being advertised through exploited hosts. Nothing to do with traps or SBL. ;-) Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Was: List of spamvertised sites sent via zombies, open proxies, etc.?

2005-03-13 Thread Jeff Chan
On Sunday, March 13, 2005, 5:12:30 AM, Jeff Chan wrote: > On Friday, March 11, 2005, 11:27:52 PM, Jeff Chan wrote: >> Does anyone have or know about a list of spam-advertised URIs >> where the spam they appeared in was sent through open relays, >> zombies, open proxies, etc.

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