RE: any rules for this?

2008-02-26 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- From: Mike Fahey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 27 February 2008 6:16 a.m. To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: any rules for this? Does anyone have any rules for these? C A 5N A D/1AN P 7 5H A RM A 9CY V / 7A G R \A - $1.45 C 4/ A L

Re: any rules for this?

2008-02-26 Thread Paul Douglas Franklin
Here is what I'm trying: body CAN_PHAR /c[\W\d]{0,4}a[\W\d]{0,4}n[\W\d]{0,4}a[\W\d]{0,4}d[\W\d]{0,4}a[\W\d]{0,4}n[\W\d]{0,4}p[\W\d]{0,4}h[\W\d]{0,4}a[\W\d]{0,4}r[\W\d]{0,4}m[\W\d]{0,4}a[\W\d]{0,4}c[\W\d]{0,4}y/i I believe I have stripped out all non-letters and then search for the tip-off

Re: any rules for this?

2008-02-26 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 13:15 -0800, Paul Douglas Franklin wrote: Here is what I'm trying: body CAN_PHAR /c[\W\d]{0,4}a[\W\d]{0,4}n[\W\d]{0,4}a[\W\d]{0,4}d[\W\d]{0,4}a[\W\d]{0,4}n[\W\d]{0,4}p[\W\d]{0,4}h[\W\d]{0,4}a[\W\d]{0,4}r[\W\d]{0,4}m[\W\d]{0,4}a[\W\d]{0,4}c[\W\d]{0,4}y/i Seems to me

Re: any rules for this?

2008-02-26 Thread Loren Wilton
This looks like a new version of the old Leo pill spams. Catching those obfuscated things gets difficult since the spammers get VERY creative using HTML formatting to juggle the characters around in non-obvious ways. About the best method of catching them currently is SURBL, since they almost

Re: any rules for this?

2008-02-26 Thread Mike Fahey
The ones I have seen I haven't been able to find a pattern. They tend to use letters in place of any character. I'll look over this run and feed it some of the samples. Any else have thoughts? Paul Douglas Franklin wrote: Here is what I'm trying: body CAN_PHAR

Re: Any rules to catch EXE's?

2007-01-13 Thread Matt Kettler
Robert Nicholson wrote: At this time I'm forwarding mail that SA considers spam to my gmail account. The following bounces with SMTP error from remote mail server after end of data: host gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com [64.233.185.27]: 552 5.7.0 Illegal Attachment g5si5192165wra

Re: Any rules to catch EXE's?

2007-01-13 Thread Michele Neylon :: Blacknight
Matt Kettler wrote: Robert Nicholson wrote: At this time I'm forwarding mail that SA considers spam to my gmail account. The following bounces with SMTP error from remote mail server after end of data: host gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com [64.233.185.27]: 552 5.7.0 Illegal Attachment

Re: Any rules to catch EXE's?

2007-01-13 Thread Matt Kettler
Michele Neylon :: Blacknight wrote: Matt Kettler wrote: Robert Nicholson wrote: At this time I'm forwarding mail that SA considers spam to my gmail account. The following bounces with SMTP error from remote mail server after end of data: host gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com

Re: Any rules to catch EXE's?

2007-01-13 Thread John D. Hardin
None of the rules indicate that it had any exe or zip attachment Why would they? SA is a spam filter, not a virus filter. You could try MailScanner (http://www.mailscanner.info) Or this if you already have a procmail infrastructure:

Re: Any rules for URLs like this?

2006-08-18 Thread Jeremy Fairbrass
I'm not sure it's actually obfuscated though?? It seems to be a valid URL, I mean in terms of it existing in DNS as-is, and in terms of it working (click on it and it takes you to the spammer's site). I actually didn't know you could use [] characters in a domain name, but I guess you can - this

Re: Any rules for URLs like this?

2006-08-18 Thread John D. Hardin
On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, Jeremy Fairbrass wrote: It seems to be a valid URL I actually didn't know you could use [] characters in a domain name I dunno what the RFCs say about the usage of such characters in a sub-domain... *boggle* I am going to have to re-read the RFCs as well - I, too,

Re: Any rules for URLs like this?

2006-08-17 Thread Kelson Vibber
John D. Hardin wrote: An obfuscated URL like that should be fairly easy to detect - are there any rules (e.g. SARE) for these? Do you need rules for them? It looks like URIBL was able to pick it up fine. It picks it up so well, in fact, that the list rejected my first attempt to reply until

Re: Any rules for URLs like this?

2006-08-17 Thread John D. Hardin
On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Kelson Vibber wrote: John D. Hardin wrote: An obfuscated URL like that should be fairly easy to detect - are there any rules (e.g. SARE) for these? Do you need rules for them? It looks like URIBL was able to pick it up fine. Yes, but I want enough points to push it

Re: Any rules for URLs like this?

2006-08-17 Thread Loren Wilton
Do you need rules for them? It looks like URIBL was able to pick it up fine. Yes, but I want enough points to push it over the automatic-discard threshhold. An extra point or two for that form of obfuscation would be welcome (to me, at least). I wrote a rule against those sort of things

Re: any rules for RelayCountry?

2004-11-18 Thread Eric A. Hall
On 11/17/2004 12:53 PM, Martin wrote: |I'm looking to use the RelayCountry plugin data but there |doesn't seem to be any rules. Anybody know of any? Here's some rules I use, utilising the nerds.dk lists, not sure if its what you are looking for. That works perfectly, and doesn't even