Re: FuzzyOcr 2.3b released, fixes bugs and improves stability

2006-08-26 Thread jdow
From: "Gary V" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I can see it now: spammers reduced to sending obfuscated text rendered as an animated GIF embedded in a Word document in a Zip file attached to an email whose subject is "Invoice #437892" with no body text... :) -- John Hardin KA7OHZICQ#15735746htt

Re: FuzzyOcr 2.3b released, fixes bugs and improves stability

2006-08-26 Thread Dave Pooser
> I can see it now: spammers reduced to sending obfuscated text rendered > as an animated GIF embedded in a Word document in a Zip file attached > to an email whose subject is "Invoice #437892" with no body text... :) And 500,000 people would STILL buy what they're selling. :^( -- Dave Pooser Ca

Re: FuzzyOcr 2.3b released, fixes bugs and improves stability

2006-08-26 Thread Gary V
I can see it now: spammers reduced to sending obfuscated text rendered as an animated GIF embedded in a Word document in a Zip file attached to an email whose subject is "Invoice #437892" with no body text... :) -- John Hardin KA7OHZICQ#15735746http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ Great, n

Re: Suggestion - or am I off in the ozone

2006-08-26 Thread jdow
From: "Theo Van Dinter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 07:14:18PM -0700, jdow wrote: Is there some magic to the .pre files that makes it important to have the load_plugins there? Yes, pre files are loaded before anything else, so the plugins loaded from there can be used in all cf

Re: FuzzyOcr 2.3b released, fixes bugs and improves stability

2006-08-26 Thread John D. Hardin
On Sat, 26 Aug 2006, Loren Wilton wrote: > > That's what I was thinking, and would allow leverage by a lot of > > plugins (e.g. the Word plugin I am prepping to start)... > > > > Create some PerMsgStatus string variable or some such that the body > > rules would be run over... > > Actually the ea

Re: Suggestion - or am I off in the ozone

2006-08-26 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 07:14:18PM -0700, jdow wrote: > Is there some magic to the .pre files that makes it important to have > the load_plugins there? Yes, pre files are loaded before anything else, so the plugins loaded from there can be used in all cf files. -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "Jo

Suggestion - or am I off in the ozone

2006-08-26 Thread jdow
Managing local plugins is getting to be a minor hassle. What I've done is create a subdirectory /etc/mail/spamassassin/local_plugins. This works and minimizes clutter. I've also noticed that maintaining load_plugin in a separate file than the plugin's .cf files is also a hassle. Is there some mag

Re: [Devel-spam] FuzzyOcr 2.3b released,fixes bugs and improves stability

2006-08-26 Thread jdow
From: "decoder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Expertsites, Inc. wrote: From: "decoder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hello, I just uploaded FuzzyOcr 2.3b to the download site. If you find bugs or run into problems, please mail back :) This release failed to recog

Re: Pse help stock spam

2006-08-26 Thread jdow
From: "John Fleming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> My server is getting more and more "stock spam" with an image and a few paragraphs of bayes-obfuscating text. I've been chasing them by either learning them or increasing the score of SARE or other rules that hit. Today I got several that didn't hit an

Re: Fuzzy 2.3b and PNG

2006-08-26 Thread Gary V
Rose, Bobby wrote: > What am I missing? I updated but not png isn't working. If I switch to > debug logging 2 I see in the log when I run the sample thru. > > [2006-08-26 18:16:40] Debug mode: Analyzing file with content-type > "image/png" > [2006-08-26 18:16:40] Debug mode: Image type not recog

Re: FuzzyOcr 2.3b release, broken with SA 3.1.0

2006-08-26 Thread Loren Wilton
I believe there is at least one other plugin that includes its own copy of M:SA:Timeout when installed on a backlevel version of SA. Probably a reasonable solution. Loren

Re: Animated images in mails

2006-08-26 Thread Loren Wilton
Sure. giftopnm will do it. The FuzzyOCR plugin is using some other tool that will also do it, I don't recall what just at the moment. Loren

Re: FuzzyOcr 2.3b released, fixes bugs and improves stability

2006-08-26 Thread Loren Wilton
Now if you could just ocr the whole thing as text, and pass it back to SA to score! That's what I was thinking, and would allow leverage by a lot of plugins (e.g. the Word plugin I am prepping to start)... Create some PerMsgStatus string variable or some such that the body rules would be run ov

Pse help stock spam

2006-08-26 Thread John Fleming
My server is getting more and more "stock spam" with an image and a few paragraphs of bayes-obfuscating text. I've been chasing them by either learning them or increasing the score of SARE or other rules that hit. Today I got several that didn't hit anything useful and were learned as ham: X-

Re: FuzzyOcr 2.3b release, broken with SA 3.1.0

2006-08-26 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
decoder wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I was just informed that the latest FuzzyOcr version, 3.2b, includes a function (module from SA) which is only available in 3.1.4, not in 3.1.0. The missing module is Mail::SpamAssassin::Timeout. Currently, the only way to fix

Re: Fuzzy 2.3b and PNG

2006-08-26 Thread decoder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rose, Bobby wrote: > What am I missing? I updated but not png isn't working. If I switch to > debug logging 2 I see in the log when I run the sample thru. > > [2006-08-26 18:16:40] Debug mode: Analyzing file with content-type > "image/png" > [2006-08

Fuzzy 2.3b and PNG

2006-08-26 Thread Rose, Bobby
What am I missing? I updated but not png isn't working. If I switch to debug logging 2 I see in the log when I run the sample thru. [2006-08-26 18:16:40] Debug mode: Analyzing file with content-type "image/png" [2006-08-26 18:16:40] Debug mode: Image type not recognized, unknown format. Skippin

Re: ImageInfo plug-in and animated GIF images

2006-08-26 Thread John Andersen
On Saturday 26 August 2006 06:54, Yves Goergen wrote: > > I've never seen an animated gif spam, but I suspect the creator of such > > is a member of this mailing list, because this stuff is appearing almost > > in parallel with the new plugins. > > Shall I send you an example? No thanks. My point

Re: test my bleeding edge broken code. with your finger!

2006-08-26 Thread hamann . w
>> two bits of sa related code i've written, neither of them are what >> i'd particularly call "polished", but if you feel like firing them >> up, i'd love to hear your feedback: >> >> Phisher: >> http://www.faisal.com/software/phisher/ >> This is a plugin that does nothing more complicated

Re: FuzzyOcr 2.3b release, broken with SA 3.1.0

2006-08-26 Thread decoder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I was just informed that the latest FuzzyOcr version, 3.2b, includes a function (module from SA) which is only available in 3.1.4, not in 3.1.0. The missing module is Mail::SpamAssassin::Timeout. Currently, the only way to fix this is to upgrad

Re: Running on Debian stable

2006-08-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Gary V wrote: > As far as SpamAssassin goes, I don't believe there is a significant > difference in what a .deb package provides and what installing from source > provides (which is essentially what CPAN does, bringing dependencies with > it). I think you would find the program files and rules w

Re: ImageInfo plug-in and animated GIF images

2006-08-26 Thread Yves Goergen
On 26.08.2006 10:18 CE(S)T, John Andersen wrote: > On Saturday 26 August 2006 00:12, Yves Goergen wrote: >> Hello, >> >> does anybody know when there'll be an update to the ImageInfo plug-in so >> that it can detect that new animated images stuff? I keep getting more >> of them and none is detected

Re: Animated images in mails

2006-08-26 Thread decoder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Plenz wrote: > Today I got animated spam. The first frame only with dots an lines, the > second frame with spam text, the third frame again with dots and lines. The > duration of the text frame is very long, the others are very short. > > Is there a co

Re: [Devel-spam] FuzzyOcr 2.3b released,fixes bugs and improves stability

2006-08-26 Thread decoder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gary V wrote: >> Hello, >> >> >> I just uploaded FuzzyOcr 2.3b to the download site. If you find >> bugs or run into problems, please mail back :) > > The jpeg.eml and png.eml samples failed to provide FuzzyOcr hits on > my system because the messages

RE: Animated images in mails

2006-08-26 Thread Randal, Phil
I really must read older emails to the list first... The current download has been fixed.. Sorry for the noise. Phil -Original Message- From: Randal, Phil Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2006 10:32 AM To: 'Plenz'; users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: Animated images in mails FuzzyOCR

RE: Animated images in mails

2006-08-26 Thread Randal, Phil
FuzzyOCR (http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/FuzzyOcrPlugin) will do what you want. There's a small error in 2.3b's FuzzyOCR.pm which means it doesn't recognize jpeg images. To fix that, change elsif ( substr($picture_data,0,5) eq "\x89\x50\x4e\x47" ) { to read elsif ( substr($picture_da

Re: ImageInfo plug-in and animated GIF images

2006-08-26 Thread John Andersen
On Saturday 26 August 2006 00:12, Yves Goergen wrote: > Hello, > > does anybody know when there'll be an update to the ImageInfo plug-in so > that it can detect that new animated images stuff? I keep getting more > of them and none is detected, whereas they have been detected formerly. Really? Ani

ImageInfo plug-in and animated GIF images

2006-08-26 Thread Yves Goergen
Hello, does anybody know when there'll be an update to the ImageInfo plug-in so that it can detect that new animated images stuff? I keep getting more of them and none is detected, whereas they have been detected formerly. -- Yves Goergen "LonelyPixel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://beta.unclassifie