word doc spam

2009-06-02 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Hi all, Is there a rule to catch these messages with no body and a 550 bite word attachment? thx The only rule its triggering is the RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL RBL: SORBS: sent directly from dynamic IP address

Re: word doc spam

2009-06-02 Thread John Hardin
On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Is there a rule to catch these messages with no body and a 550 bite word attachment? Can you post a sample somewhere for us? -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.orgFALaholic #11174 pgpk

Re: word doc spam

2009-06-02 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 09:10 -0400, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi all, Is there a rule to catch these messages with no body and a 550 bite word attachment? Yes, add the SaneSecurity clamav signatures. codling.rtf: Sanesecurity.Spam.10307.UNOFFICIAL FOUND Integration with spamassassin left as

RE: word doc spam

2009-06-02 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Correction they are rtf not doc ftp://ftp.fcimail.org/IT/SA_Sample/shambling.rtf -Original Message- From: John Hardin [mailto:jhar...@impsec.org] Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 9:47 AM To: Jean-Paul Natola Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: word doc spam On Tue, 2 Jun

RE: Barracuda Blacklist

2009-06-02 Thread Bob O'Brien
April 29? You started your narrative on 5/28 with an explicitly specified three week time frame. On the 29th, I looked at four weeks of history, and the factual numbers were lower. If that's where the discrepancy arose, then we may not really disagree about anything of consequence. No, I

Re: word doc spam

2009-06-02 Thread John Hardin
On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, Dave Walker wrote: John Hardin wrote: On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Is there a rule to catch these messages with no body and a 550 bite word attachment? Can you post a sample somewhere for us? Hi, I assume he means the recent surge in rtf attachment

Re: Identifying Source of False Positives

2009-06-02 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 1 Jun 2009, Bowie Bailey wrote: Your biggest problems here are BAYES_99 and EMPTY_BODY. To fix the Bayes problem, sa-learn some of these messages as ham. Make sure you are learning as the right user... Bowie, I started doing this today. Each of the false positive messages was

RE: word doc spam

2009-06-02 Thread John Hardin
On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: ftp://ftp.fcimail.org/IT/SA_Sample/message.txt Yep, the rules below will hit on that message. -Original Message- From: John Hardin [mailto:jhar...@impsec.org] Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 11:18 AM To: SpamAssassin Users List Subject: Re:

Controlling spamd logging from spamc

2009-06-02 Thread Martin Gregorie
How difficult would it be to let spamc control spamd's logging output on a per-message basis? My reason for asking is this: I maintain a body of spam that I use to develop and regression test local rules and, during rule development, use spamc to pass the test messages through my only copy of

FuzzyOcr and facileOCR questions

2009-06-02 Thread David Ronis
I've been playing with FuzzyOcr and FacileOCR in spamassassin (current trunk). Both plugins are built and installed, and test properly; however, I'm not sure spamassassin is actually using them in routine mail scanning. Basically, after 2-3 days running (ca 1000 spams) I've yet to see a spamd

Re: word doc spam

2009-06-02 Thread Charles Gregory
Just to be sure that I'm thinking the right way about the 'no text body part' rule: If someone sends a 'normal' message, but elects to not type any text into the body, there *will* still be a mime 'text' section, and it will just be empty, right? So the 'no text body' would mean that the

Re: FuzzyOcr 3.6.0 released

2009-06-02 Thread Nels Lindquist
decoder wrote: after quite some time, I've decided to release another version of FuzzyOcr... snip Where's the best place to provide feedback/bug reports for FuzzyOCR? Is this list okay, or would you prefer folks open tickets on the website, or something else? Nels Lindquist

Re: word doc spam

2009-06-02 Thread John Hardin
On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, Charles Gregory wrote: Just to be sure that I'm thinking the right way about the 'no text body part' rule: If someone sends a 'normal' message, but elects to not type any text into the body, there *will* still be a mime 'text' section, and it will just be empty, right? I

Re: Identifying Source of False Positives

2009-06-02 Thread Charles Gregory
On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, Rich Shepard wrote: This morning not only was the mail log report and logwatch report falsely flagged as spam, but so were several messages posted to the google group mail list for an application I use. What is interesting to me is that every one had a +2.5 score for

Re: word doc spam

2009-06-02 Thread Charles Gregory
On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, John Hardin wrote: Well, any tool that's composing MIME messages can choose to omit a text body part if no text is available... (snip) In practice, we're only seeing it in spams. There may be false positives in some unusual situations, but it's not likely with legitimate

Re: word doc spam

2009-06-02 Thread LuKreme
On 2-Jun-2009, at 07:10, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Is there a rule to catch these messages with no body and a 550 bite word attachment? I reject .doc attachments since they can carry macro virus payloads. -- We will fight for Bovine Freedom and hold our large heads high We will run free

SpamAssassin error Interrupted system call

2009-06-02 Thread Luis campo
We have installed SpamAssassin 3.25 working with qmail Simscan ClamAV. The problem is that spam works a few minutes then let it pass all messages giving a score of 0.00 in the log and see the siguientre message: Jun 2 11:31:26 ServerAS spamc[7259]: connect to spamd on 172.16.0.14 failed,

Re: FuzzyOcr and facileOCR questions

2009-06-02 Thread RW
On Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:19:50 -0400 David Ronis ro...@ronispc.chem.mcgill.ca wrote: I've been playing with FuzzyOcr and FacileOCR in spamassassin (current trunk). Both plugins are built and installed, and test properly; however, ... Doesn't look like the tests are being triggered. Anybody

Re: application/octet-stream Content-Type used to obfuscate terse .RTF spam

2009-06-02 Thread Adam Katz
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: http://puffin.net\software\spam\samples\0005_body.txt Address Not Found puffin.net\software\spam\samples\0005_body.txt could not be found. Please check the name and try again. Did nobody ever told you that URL directories are separated by slashes, not

Question on add-to-blacklist

2009-06-02 Thread Larry Starr
I have been using the AWL ( --add-addr-to-blacklist ) for some time, to bump new spam senders above the Bayes-99 score. My problem is that this feature seems, extreemly slow. I'm now trying to use the ( --add-to-blacklist ) option and am finding that this is, equally, slow. I'm running it as:

An idea for spamc (failsafe option)

2009-06-02 Thread Jari Fredriksson
I have two spamd hosts, and spamc calls them seemingly random or doing some kind of load balance. -H option if I remeber right. Sometimes one of those are down when doing maintance or something.. When spamc encouters connection refused it keeps retrying as told with --connect-retries But if

DNSBL clarification question

2009-06-02 Thread Adam Katz
The various eval:check_rbl() selectors are: -notfirsthop -firsttrusted -untrusted -untrusted My understanding from the docs: -notfirsthop examines all IPs except the originating one, useful for ignoring the user's direct IP, which could be a hotel or dialup IP. -firsttrusted examines the

Re: An idea for spamc (failsafe option)

2009-06-02 Thread jp
If you were nearby, I'd give you a gig stick of RAM to solve your problem. It's cheap these days. On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 11:06:05PM +0300, Jari Fredriksson wrote: I have two spamd hosts, and spamc calls them seemingly random or doing some kind of load balance. -H option if I remeber right.

Re: An idea for spamc (failsafe option)

2009-06-02 Thread Jari Fredriksson
If you were nearby, I'd give you a gig stick of RAM to solve your problem. It's cheap these days. I grabbed this 15 years old Pentium PRO machine from my cellar just for this extra SpamAssassin process. I think EDO DRAM is not cheap, it at all available these these days. Old rig, but but

LET'S KILL THIS THREAD (Was: whitelists (was Re: Barracuda Blacklist)

2009-06-02 Thread mouss
ANTICOM-STINGER a écrit : On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 12:16 -0600, J.D. Falk wrote: Rob McEwen wrote: Additionally, I'd like to ask, other than being a superb cash-generating machine, what good is a whitelist built upon pay-to-enter and NOT based on editorial decisions made by non-biased e-mail

RE: Barracuda Blacklist

2009-06-02 Thread Bob O'Brien
Actually, Richard, yes - I have management approval for what details I choose to share with any given online community. I am also learning to count Jann among my friends, and I'm sure he would *appropriately* acknowledge your greeting. If your participation is at all typical of this

RE: Barracuda Blacklist

2009-06-02 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 13:40 -0700, Bob O'Brien wrote: Actually, Richard, yes - I have management approval for what details I choose to share with any given online community. I am also learning to count Jann among my friends, and I'm sure he would *appropriately* acknowledge your greeting.

Re: Barracuda Blacklist

2009-06-02 Thread Andy Dorman
Bob O'Brien wrote: Actually, Richard, yes - I have management approval for what details I choose to share with any given online community. I am also learning to count Jann among my friends, and I'm sure he would *appropriately* acknowledge your greeting. If your participation is at all

Re: Question on add-to-blacklist

2009-06-02 Thread Michael Scheidell
I have been using the AWL ( --add-addr-to-blacklist ) for some time, to bump new spam senders above the Bayes-99 score. My problem is that this feature seems, extreemly slow. I'm now trying to use the ( --add-to-blacklist ) option and am finding that this is, equally, slow. I'm running

Re: Question on add-to-blacklist

2009-06-02 Thread Theo Van Dinter
Well, the first problem is that the AWL has no impact on Bayes. They're totally independent. Perhaps you want sa-learn ? On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Larry Starr lar...@fullcompass.com wrote: I have been using the AWL ( --add-addr-to-blacklist ) for some time, to bump new spam senders above

Re: Question on add-to-blacklist

2009-06-02 Thread Adam Katz
Larry Starr lar...@fullcompass.com wrote: I have been using the AWL ( --add-addr-to-blacklist ) for some time, to bump new spam senders above the Bayes-99 score. Theo Van Dinter responded: Well, the first problem is that the AWL has no impact on Bayes. They're totally independent. Perhaps

SpamAssassin error Interrupted system call

2009-06-02 Thread Luis campo
We have installed SpamAssassin 3.25 working with qmail Simscan ClamAV. The problem is that spam works a few minutes then let it pass all messages giving a score of 0.00 in the log and see the siguientre message: Jun 2 11:31:26 ServerAS spamc[7259]: connect to spamd on 172.16.0.14

Re: SpamAssassin error Interrupted system call

2009-06-02 Thread John Hardin
On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, Luis campo wrote: We have installed SpamAssassin 3.25 working with qmail Simscan ClamAV. The problem is that spam works a few minutes then let it pass all messages giving a score of 0.00 in the log and see the siguientre message: Jun 2 11:31:26 ServerAS spamc[7259]:

Re: DNSBL clarification question

2009-06-02 Thread RW
On Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:26:08 -0400 Adam Katz antis...@khopis.com wrote: -notfirsthop examines all IPs except the originating one, useful for ignoring the user's direct IP, which could be a hotel or dialup IP. You'd think, but in practice -lastexternal gets used. I'm not sure why. My

New method to bypass SA?

2009-06-02 Thread fchan
I recently was checking on servers that were sending out spam and found one of them had the hostname called localhost which I think is a attempt to bypass SA. The IP address is 222.252.188.181 which maps back to Vietnam. Also I found that a large percentage of my spam comes from Brazil and I

Re: New method to bypass SA?

2009-06-02 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 17:01 -0700, fchan wrote: I recently was checking on servers that were sending out spam and found one of them had the hostname called localhost which I think is a attempt to bypass SA. The IP address is 222.252.188.181 which maps back to Vietnam. Why would that be?

Re: Looking for whitelist domain data

2009-06-02 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 20:14 +0200, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 09:43 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: I'm looking for domains to whitelist that meet this criteria: Speaking of which, how would you like me to report bad listings in the Hostkarma whitelist? I was kind of

how to know what blacklists i'm checking against

2009-06-02 Thread Lists
Hi all, System: MailScanner 4.76.24 spamassassin 3.2.5 MTA - postfix ClamAV 0.95.1 I am trying to trouble shoot why a particular server cannot send into our email system. There is no reference in the logs to this server ever trying to connect. I have discovered they are on

RE: Barracuda Blacklist

2009-06-02 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 13:40 -0700, Bob O'Brien wrote: Actually, Richard, yes - I have management approval for what details I choose to share with any given online community. Share? Oh Sorry Bob. I only had Barracuda down as digital thieves. Let me see; SPAM and 'VIRUS' (lol) 'FIREWALL' BSMTPD

Re: An idea for spamc (failsafe option)

2009-06-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Jari Fredriksson wrote: I have two spamd hosts, and spamc calls them seemingly random or doing some kind of load balance. -H option if I remeber right. The documentation says that it just randomizes the ordering of the addresses. So if luck is with you then you will split the load among all of