On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, [ISO-8859-2] Micha? J?czalik wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've noticed a huge increase of spam rate in past 2-3 weeks. Most of it
> are messages with some quite normal Subject:, often (but not neccesarily)
> referring to some fake event (i.e. some politician stabbed to death) and
> there's only a link, sometimes together with a single sentence, in the
> body. How to fight this? Bayes doesn't catch this much, perhaps because
> these messages contain few text.
>
> I don't have example of a message of exactly this kind at this moment, but
> this one below is similar. Well, it does catch DRUGS_ERECTILE, so it's an
> easier case, but most of these spams don't refer to viagra and usually
> scores BAYES_50 (max) and nothing more.
>
> X-Spam-Level: ***
> X-Spam-Status: No, score=3.6 required=3.9 tests=BAYES_50,DRUGS_ERECTILE,
>      HTML_MESSAGE autolearn=no version=3.2.5
> [...]
> Received: from 190-95-40-158.bk18-dsl.surnet.cl
> (190-95-40-158.bk18-dsl.surnet.cl [190.95.40.158])
>      by xxxxxxxx (8.12.8/8.12.8) with SMTP id m6LH0TnX015727
>      for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:00:29 +0200
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> From: "World Pharmacy -A22 " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Sale on all items.. viagra for $1
> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:00:32 GMT
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
>      boundary="-------=_NextPart_191_031A_0000040D.00007EC0"
> X-Priority: 3
> X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
> X-MimeOLE: Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527
>
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
> <HTML>
> <body>
> <h2>
> <a href="http://www.geocities.com/bettyaphdjnx/";> see site </a></h2>
>
> </body></html>

First thing, do you have network tests turned off? That IP address
hit 5 different DNSBL lists here, some of which we use at the SMTP
level so that message would not even made it in our front door. ;)
(I realize that it might not have been listed earlier today).

Install the BOTNET plugin, it will add points to those PC-on-DSL/CABLE
clients, even before they get listed in DNSBLs.

I'm guessing that the kind of message you are referring to looks more
like:

  Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:49:04 +0200
  From: Froskary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Subject: CNN Wire: Obama arrives in Iraq

  B-52 bomber crashes off island of Guam
  http://pelledilunaaXXXXX.it/begin.html

These are not strictly speaking spam, they're actually trojan
bot messages attempting to get people to download a trojan
onto their PCs. (If you are foolish enough to read that message
on a PC and click on that link, you are pOwn3d.)

Those things seem to regularly hit BOTNET, DNSBLs like Spamhaus &
abuseat-CBL, and the URLs tend to get listed in SURBL/URIBL.


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