I'm having marvelous luck with FuzzyOCR - but the spammers are learning too.
When I first started using it just a couple of months ago, it really
whacked the image-based spam. You could see why when gocr file.gif
returned nice text that was easy to match against.
However, now is a different
Title: RE: Stock spam in images
Greetings list,
The old timers on the list know I tend to try things outside the norm. Like my strong resistence to sitewide bayes. Well for months I've been using a simpler approach to these Stock Spams w/ images. I don't look at the image at all. Heresy I
Jason Haar wrote:
I'm having marvelous luck with FuzzyOCR - but the spammers are learning too.
When I first started using it just a couple of months ago, it really
whacked the image-based spam. You could see why when gocr file.gif
returned nice text that was easy to match against.
However, now
For Debian Users I've found the follow link, a step by step guide in
order to implement FuzzyOCR and ImageInfo with spamassassin.
http://www200.pair.com/mecham/spam/image_spam.html
Andrea
I'm a newbie to the list and have been scanning recent posts to see if
what I'm about to ask about has been covered but I haven't seen anything
yet.
Lately I have been getting more and more of the stock alert spam but now
all the good info is in an image and typically following the image is
@spamassassin.apache.org
Objet : Stock spam in images
I'm a newbie to the list and have been scanning recent posts to see if what I'm
about to ask about has been covered but I haven't seen anything yet.
Lately I have been getting more and more of the stock alert spam but now all
the good info is in an image
Dylan Bouterse wrote:
I'm a newbie to the list and have been scanning recent posts to see if
what I'm about to ask about has been covered but I haven't seen
anything yet.
Lately I have been getting more and more of the stock alert spam but
now all the good info is in an image and typically
I'm a newbie to the list and have been scanning recent posts to see if
what I'm about to ask about has been covered but I haven't seen anything
yet.
Lately I have been getting more and more of the stock alert spam but now
all the good info is in an image and typically following the image is
-Original Message-
From: Bowie Bailey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 9:46 AM
To: users@spamassassin.apache.org
Subject: RE: Stock spam in images
Dylan Bouterse wrote:
I'm a newbie to the list and have been scanning recent posts to see if
what I'm about to ask
...omissis...
How about the FuzzyOCR plugin? That has been discussed quite a bit
here recently.
http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/FuzzyOcrPlugin
--
Bowie
And, by the way, it seems to work!
Actually, the only limit I see is the own-made FuzzyOcr.words (and, maybe, the
fact that
October 2006 14:38
To: users@spamassassin.apache.org
Subject: Stock spam in images
I'm a newbie to the list and have been scanning recent posts to see if
what I'm about to ask about has been covered but I haven't
seen anything
yet.
Lately I have been getting more and more of the stock alert
Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote:
And, by the way, it seems to work!
Actually, the only limit I see is the own-made FuzzyOcr.words
(and, maybe, the fact that script text may probably get
undetected). Wouldn't it be better to inject the detected
text back to SA? There should be enough variants
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 03:18:58PM +0100, Randal, Phil wrote:
undetected). Wouldn't it be better to inject the detected
text back to SA? There should be enough variants of spam
worlds to let SA fuzzily catch the ones from images.
I think so. Some of the words would be perfectly
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 03:18:58PM +0100, Randal, Phil wrote:
undetected). Wouldn't it be better to inject the detected
text back to SA? There should be enough variants of spam
worlds to let SA fuzzily catch the ones from images.
I think so. Some of the words would be perfectly
to sleep
-Message d'origine-
De : Randal, Phil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Envoyé : lundi 2 octobre 2006 16:19
À : users@spamassassin.apache.org
Objet : RE: Stock spam in images
Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote:
And, by the way, it seems to work!
Actually, the only limit I see is the own
Theo Van Dinter wrote:
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 03:18:58PM +0100, Randal, Phil wrote:
undetected). Wouldn't it be better to inject the detected
text back to SA? There should be enough variants of spam
worlds to let SA fuzzily catch the ones from images.
I think so. Some of the words would be
Stuart Johnston wrote:
Theo Van Dinter wrote:
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 03:18:58PM +0100, Randal, Phil wrote:
undetected). Wouldn't it be better to inject the detected text back
to SA? There should be enough variants of spam worlds to let SA
fuzzily catch the ones from images.
I think so.
Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK
-Original Message-
From: Fabien GARZIANO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 02 October 2006 16:11
To: users@spamassassin.apache.org
Subject: RE: Stock spam in images
Too bad, cause I agree with Giampaolo, it would be great.
What about
.
:)
-Original Message-
From: Dylan Bouterse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 9:38 AM
To: users@spamassassin.apache.org
Subject: Stock spam in images
I'm a newbie to the list and have been scanning recent posts to see if what
I'm about to ask about has been
The real problem is the potentially fuzzy output from the ocr engine: shure all
the copies of the very same spam would be detected the same, but what about
slightly different copies? Would the use the sa force approach be feasible?
The use of String::Approx in fuzzyocr has shurely a meaning,
Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK
-Original Message-
From: Fabien GARZIANO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 02 October 2006 16:11
To: users@spamassassin.apache.org
Subject: RE: Stock spam in images
Too bad, cause I agree with Giampaolo
...omissis...
How about the FuzzyOCR plugin? That has been discussed quite a bit
here recently.
http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/FuzzyOcrPlugin
--
Bowie
And, by the way, it seems to work!
Actually, the only limit I see is the own-made FuzzyOcr.words
(and, maybe, the fact
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Theo Van Dinter wrote:
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 03:18:58PM +0100, Randal, Phil wrote:
undetected). Wouldn't it be better to inject the detected
text back to SA? There should be enough variants of spam
worlds to let SA fuzzily catch the ones from
rulesets gets most of them.
Cheers,
Phil -- Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK
-Original Message- From: Dylan Bouterse
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 October 2006 14:38 To:
users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Stock spam in images
I'm a newbie
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 11:05:38AM -0500, Stuart Johnston wrote:
Would it also be possible to create a rule that matches on text rendered
specifically from a non-text part and not the whole body? That way you
You'd have to do that in a plugin, but otherwise, sure. There's currently no
-Original Message-
From: Randal, Phil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 3:58 AM
To: Dylan Bouterse; users@spamassassin.apache.org
Subject: RE: Stock spam in images
This has been covered so many times on this list.
1: if you're not on spamassassin 3.1.5
On Tue, October 3, 2006 00:01, Gary V wrote:
For installing the ImageInfo plugin where do you put the ImageInfo.pm
without defining a path? Im running CentOS4.4 Fedora Core 5 as test
machines.
This should find your Plugin directory (which is where you place it):
find /usr -type d -name
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