Re: russian spam with only two lines in the body

2010-08-27 Thread Martin Gregorie
Thus, based on my own observations, it looks like the value of rules in this particular area is going to be in scoring stuff that arrives before the domains show up in the various SURBLs. Quite possibly, though it seems to have been selectively targeted to some extent: at least it doesn't

Re: russian spam with only two lines in the body

2010-08-27 Thread NFN Smith
Martin Gregorie wrote: Alternatively, using a meta rule that combines the above pattern as a sub-rule with two like this: /[a-z]{7,8}[0-9]{4}/ that match against From: and Reply-To: headers would appear to be fairly specific and worthy of a big score, but of course you'll have spotted that

Re: russian spam with only two lines in the body

2010-08-25 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 14:29 +1200, Jason Haar wrote: On 08/25/2010 10:06 AM, Ibrahim Harrani wrote: Hi, Recently, I am getting russian spam like at http://pastebin.com/Yf3AusJ4 All of their characteristic is that there are two line in the body. First is a sentence, second is url

Re: russian spam with only two lines in the body

2010-08-25 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 20:04 +0200, Benny Pedersen wrote: On ons 25 aug 2010 13:37:57 CEST, Martin Gregorie wrote BTW, I'm now starting to see spam that doesn't contain any URIs or other ways of identifying a source for the goods being advertised. So far its been for examination aids and

Re: russian spam with only two lines in the body

2010-08-25 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 19:56 +0100, Martin Gregorie wrote: BTW, I'm now starting to see spam that doesn't contain any URIs or other ways of identifying a source for the goods being advertised. So far its been for examination aids and footware and has all been sent via a mailing list. Is

Re: russian spam with only two lines in the body

2010-08-25 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 01:06 +0300, Ibrahim Harrani wrote: Recently, I am getting russian spam like at http://pastebin.com/Yf3AusJ4 All of their characteristic is that there are two line in the body. First is a sentence, second is url ending with .ru/ Hmm, I don't seem to have any problems

Re: russian spam with only two lines in the body

2010-08-25 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 21:16 +0200, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: http://pastebin.com/JAEuCSnC Uhm, that's not typical spam. It's actually forum / blog comment spam, helpfully and automatically converted to a mail. Sure, but its off topic and, however ineptly, its certainly advertising. That

Re: russian spam with only two lines in the body

2010-08-25 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 21:31 +0100, Martin Gregorie wrote: On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 21:16 +0200, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: http://pastebin.com/JAEuCSnC Uhm, that's not typical spam. It's actually forum / blog comment spam, helpfully and automatically converted to a mail. Sure, but its off

Re: russian spam with only two lines in the body

2010-08-24 Thread Jason Haar
On 08/25/2010 10:06 AM, Ibrahim Harrani wrote: Hi, Recently, I am getting russian spam like at http://pastebin.com/Yf3AusJ4 All of their characteristic is that there are two line in the body. First is a sentence, second is url ending with .ru/ This is an example of what I reported a couple

Re: russian spam with only two lines in the body

2010-08-24 Thread Benny Pedersen
On ons 25 aug 2010 04:29:02 CEST, Jason Haar wrote It's nasty :-( rules can be nasty to :) # # save into local_russian_domains.cf # uri __RU_TLD /\.ru\b/i uri __RU_TLD_WHITE /\bexample\.ru\b/i meta __URI_LISTED (URIBL_AB_SURBL || URIBL_WS_SURBL || URIBL_JP_SURBL || URIBL_BLACK ||

Re: Russian spam

2010-01-25 Thread Dan Schaefer
On 1-25-2010 8:42 AM, Richard Smits wrote: Does anyone knows any tricks to fight russian spam ? We are getting a lot of this for the last weeks. I have dealt with Russian spam by using on en in the ok_languages variable and increasing the score for UNWANTED_LANGUAGE_BODY to 10. I also

Re: Russian spam

2010-01-25 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 1-25-2010 8:42 AM, Richard Smits wrote: Does anyone knows any tricks to fight russian spam ? We are getting a lot of this for the last weeks. On 25.01.10 08:56, Dan Schaefer wrote: I have dealt with Russian spam by using on en in the ok_languages variable and increasing the score for

Re: Russian spam

2009-01-15 Thread Stefan Luetje
Am 15. Jan 2009 um 01:35 CET schrieb Francis Russell: Anyone know of any good rule-sets to block this sort of spam? http://www.unchartedbackwaters.co.uk/files/russian_spam.txt , | X-Spam-Flag: YES | X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on debian64.potato.lan |

Re: Russian spam

2009-01-15 Thread Michael Scheidell
Anyone know of any good rule-sets to block this sort of spam? http://www.unchartedbackwaters.co.uk/files/russian_spam.txt I get 17 points on that one. And looked the ip up manually on xbl and it is there because its on cbl: http://cbl.abuseat.org/lookup.cgi?ip=84.16.105.146 pts rule name

RE: Russian spam

2009-01-14 Thread Michael Hutchinson
Hello, You could write a Meta rule that contained two sub rules - one for matching The Bat! mailer, and the other matching the chat.ru link at the bottom. Fire a score if both rules hit. It may not be optimal, but it got rid of that Spam for me, and I haven't had a FP yet. If you check out

Re: Russian spam

2009-01-14 Thread Ned Slider
Francis Russell wrote: Anyone know of any good rule-sets to block this sort of spam? http://www.unchartedbackwaters.co.uk/files/russian_spam.txt I find that Pyzor and Razor completely miss it as well as the DNS blacklists (although I believe this one has a relay in one of the Spamhaus ones

RE: Russian spam

2009-01-14 Thread Michael Hutchinson
. Cheers, Mike -Original Message- From: Ned Slider [mailto:n...@unixmail.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, 15 January 2009 2:04 p.m. To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Russian spam Francis Russell wrote: Anyone know of any good rule-sets to block this sort of spam? http

Re: Russian spam

2009-01-14 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Thu, January 15, 2009 01:35, Francis Russell wrote: http://www.unchartedbackwaters.co.uk/files/russian_spam.txt Content analysis details: (12.6 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description -- - 1.5

Re: Russian spam

2009-01-14 Thread Ned Slider
Michael Hutchinson wrote: Hello, Be careful with the character-set matching rules. I was using some of them and got a high rate of FP's - it was mainly because of the koi8-r charset, and scoring against that meant I was also scoring against perfectly legitimate technical resource newsletters

Re: Russian spam

2009-01-14 Thread Francis Russell
Benny Pedersen wrote: Unfortunately, these two are because I receive mail via BT/Yahoo who never do a PTR lookup on the IP. 3.3 TVD_RCVD_IP4 TVD_RCVD_IP4 1.6 TVD_RCVD_IPTVD_RCVD_IP Oddly, I cant get this one to fire on my SA install. 2.0 FROM_EXCESS_BASE64 From:

Re: russian spam

2007-12-05 Thread Matthias Haegele
Jean-Paul Natola schrieb: Hi all, Is there a plugin and/or rule to block russian spam? Here's a sample [...] Jean-Paul I think the key is to give special score for cyrillic chars (unless this doesnt affect your regular mails). Perhaps: ok_locales e.g: ok_locales en But i dont

RE: russian spam

2007-12-05 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Jean-Paul Natola schrieb: Hi all, Is there a plugin and/or rule to block russian spam? Here's a sample [...] Jean-Paul I think the key is to give special score for cyrillic chars (unless this doesnt affect your regular mails). Perhaps: ok_locales e.g: ok_locales en But i dont

Re: Russian Spam

2006-04-14 Thread Philip Prindeville
Are you running Mimedefang? It might be a start. We block email from subscriber addresses at networks that are known to be large sources of spam. See: http://www.mimedefang.org/kwiki/index.cgi?PhilipsWorkingFilter in particular, how %bad_tld's is used. -Philip Kristopher Austin wrote: I