Re: Spam Score Low

2006-09-11 Thread John Andersen
On Monday 11 September 2006 21:30, Jason Bennett wrote: > If Network Tests means RBL's and Pyzor, they are on. I don't have Razor > or DCC - would that make a big difference here? > > Thanks I think Razor would help you a lot in these cases. Be sure to do proper configuration and adjust your SA

Re: Need help with SA and Received headers...

2006-09-11 Thread thekillerbean
Matthias Haegele-2 wrote: > > > Perhaps a better solution would be to use the same antispam-checks at > your second box/mx?. > > I have only one e-mail server is my domain - it is only used by 3 people at any one time. The secondary MX points to my ISP's email server and it really only nee

RE: Spam Score Low

2006-09-11 Thread Jason Bennett
If Network Tests means RBL's and Pyzor, they are on. I don't have Razor or DCC - would that make a big difference here? Thanks -Original Message- From: John Andersen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 11:14 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Spam S

Re: Spam with score 0.1 are bypassing my mail filters.

2006-09-11 Thread John Andersen
See: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/TrustPath On Monday 11 September 2006 15:54, kazabe wrote: > Hi. > > Im detecting a lot messages passed by my mail filters. Im using > amavis+clamav+spamassassin. When i evaluate the message, i found a > very low score assigned by spamassassin!!. >

Re: Spam Score Low

2006-09-11 Thread John Andersen
Turn on network tests. See wiki. On Monday 11 September 2006 18:37, Jason Bennett wrote: > Hi all, this particular piece of spam seems to generate a low score. I > am using most of the SARE rules including 70_sare_stocks.cf . I'm using > SpamAssassin 3.1.5 > > > > Any ideas? > > > > Thanks > >

Re: פריצת דרך מאתגרת

2006-09-11 Thread Robert Nicholson
You may have misunderstand but that's the point. The message was _not_ being filtered out like it should be and that was because of the very generic /WINDOWS/ match. so that method doesn't really obey the locales you have set. when I take out the generic /WINDOWS/ match it does then screen i

Spam Score Low

2006-09-11 Thread Jason Bennett
Hi all, this particular piece of spam seems to generate a low score.  I am using most of the SARE rules including 70_sare_stocks.cf .  I’m using SpamAssassin 3.1.5   Any ideas?   Thanks   Jason   I get this Spam Score: score=3.3 required=6.0 tests=BAYES_50,FORGED_RCVD_HELO,SARE_FWDL

Re: Bayes test in spamassassin.bat

2006-09-11 Thread jdow
As someone else replied - you MUST run spamassassin -t and sa-learn as the same user that owns the BAYES database. You have enough strange stuff in the box I'm not sure what user that might be. But I bet you could dig through configuration files to find out how spamc or spamassassin is run and as

Re: Spam with score 0.1 are bypassing my mail filters.

2006-09-11 Thread jdow
From: "kazabe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi. Im detecting a lot messages passed by my mail filters. Im using amavis+clamav+spamassassin. When i evaluate the message, i found a very low score assigned by spamassassin!!. see that example: Subject: Re [15]: X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at

Re: Bayes test in spamassassin.bat

2006-09-11 Thread Floyd
Ok here is the message again for those who found the previous post unclearsorry about that I have an exchange 2000 server and I am using spamassassin to filter the mail. I am using the exchange sink written by Chris Lewis to filter mail on each incoming message. The problem i have is that it

Spam with score 0.1 are bypassing my mail filters.

2006-09-11 Thread kazabe
Hi. Im detecting a lot messages passed by my mail filters. Im using amavis+clamav+spamassassin. When i evaluate the message, i found a very low score assigned by spamassassin!!. see that example: Subject: Re [15]: X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at dominati.com.co X-Spam-Status: No, hi

Re: postcard exploit email

2006-09-11 Thread Logan Shaw
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Raul Dias wrote: Card or some service from company FooBar which has domain FooBar.com, the link is something like: http://www.foobar.somehost.com/view_yourcard_online.php Somehost.com is something really short, some times www.foobar.com.b.fm . A way to fight this would eith

Re: Another SARE channel with the most used rules available

2006-09-11 Thread Michael Schaap
On 10-Sep-2006 8:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Any chance of adding support for 3.1.5? (Currently fails with "dns: > query failed: 5.1.3.saupdates.openprotect.*com* => NXDOMAIN".) We've already added txt record for the 3.1.5 release and it should work now. Thanks. Indeed, it works fine n

Re: postcard exploit email

2006-09-11 Thread Raul Dias
On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 19:13 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > possible problem: if the erver actually runs windows, the link could be some > kind of cgi > rather than an executable Just for the record, this kind of email is really common in pt_BR. It is really common to link to a php pa

Re: postcard exploit email

2006-09-11 Thread John D. Hardin
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, jdow wrote: > Maybe you need ClamAssassin? ClamAv is an anti-virus program. > SpamAssassin is an anti-spam program. Point taken. > - Original Message - > From: "John D. Hardin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Maybe we need a base rule for URL links directly to executabl

Re: postcard exploit email

2006-09-11 Thread jdow
Maybe you need ClamAssassin? ClamAv is an anti-virus program. SpamAssassin is an anti-spam program. Use the anti-virus program for anti-virus activity. And with ClamAssassin you can do that from within SpamAssassin and give the ClamAv hit a "killer" score. Or you could have procmail or equivalent

Re: Bayes test in spamassassin.bat

2006-09-11 Thread Stuart Johnston
The most common cause for this type of problem is that your mail server is not running as the same user as when you are testing or learning. IOW, it can't find the bayes DB. Floyd wrote: Hi, I am using Spamassassin with Exchange and i noticed I was getting different scores using spamassassin.b

Re: postcard exploit email

2006-09-11 Thread John D. Hardin
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Kelson wrote: > In fact, if you're retrieving content over the web, the link > doesn't even have to tell you the double extension. The link > could be to a redirect script, or to a download script that > provides a content-disposition header: > > http://server/path/to/evil/b

Re: Bayes Test runs sometimes and sometimes it doesn't

2006-09-11 Thread jdow
I am thinking BAYES is not even trained or that you have it turned off in some configuration somewhere. {^_^} - Original Message - From: "David Reta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I am running spamassassin 3.1.5 which is being called from mimedefang. I am using bayes over nfs which is shared be

Re: Bayes test in spamassassin.bat

2006-09-11 Thread jdow
Regardless - clean up that original message and resend. It is utterly unreadable. {^_^} - Original Message - From: "Floyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I am trying this without an MUA. I am using Dos to check the headers of the incoming mail with spamassassin. Usually I use MS Outlook but in t

Re: postcard exploit email

2006-09-11 Thread Kelson
Kenneth Porter wrote: --On Monday, September 11, 2006 8:12 AM -0700 "John D. Hardin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Maybe we need a base rule for URL links directly to executable content... MIMEDefang rejects content with executable extensions. The list of extensions is configurable. (.com is a

Re: postcard exploit email

2006-09-11 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Monday, September 11, 2006 8:12 AM -0700 "John D. Hardin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Maybe we need a base rule for URL links directly to executable content... MIMEDefang rejects content with executable extensions. The list of extensions is configurable. (.com is a pain because it also a

Re: Customizing RBL and SURBL lists

2006-09-11 Thread D . J .
Why go to all the trouble of rewriting/editing rules when it'd be a loteasier to maintain by just delegating the appropriate zones to your own DNSBL server?DarylLOL!!!  You know, sometimes you can't see the forest for the trees.  This is exactly what I'm trying to pull off, and it's a heck of a lot

Re: postcard exploit email

2006-09-11 Thread hamann . w
>> >> On Mon, September 11, 2006 18:15, John D. Hardin wrote: >> >> > Probably not, as you'd have to visit the link to get something for the >> > virus checker to check. On the server side, it'd have to follow the >> > like to download the executable to scan, and I *really* doubt anyone >> > woul

Re: Inetesting new URI ploy

2006-09-11 Thread Evan Platt
At 11:54 AM 9/11/2006, you wrote: Just came across one of these in a spam message: bang Locals @ www.nowdatenow. com oopsy no space before com Oh what will they try next...? Oh I've seen plenty that require wayyy too much work. The average 1d10t that would click on spam links would never fi

Re: Bayes test in spamassassin.bat

2006-09-11 Thread Floyd
I am trying this without an MUA. I am using Dos to check the headers of the incoming mail with spamassassin. Usually I use MS Outlook but in this case I am checking the headers on the server. There is no mail client on the server. Raul Dias wrote: > > Hi, > > What MUA are you using? > > Yo

Inetesting new URI ploy

2006-09-11 Thread Bill Landry
Just came across one of these in a spam message: bang Locals @ www.nowdatenow. com oopsy no space before com Oh what will they try next...? Bill

Re: Bayes test in spamassassin.bat

2006-09-11 Thread Raul Dias
Hi, What MUA are you using? Your MUA seems to be unable to send HTML mail, so I suggest you configure it to send only text/plain formatted text. []s Raul Dias On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 07:50 -0700, Floyd wrote: > Hi, I am using Spamassassin with Exchange and i noticed I was getting > different scor

Re: postcard exploit email

2006-09-11 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Mon, September 11, 2006 18:15, John D. Hardin wrote: > Probably not, as you'd have to visit the link to get something for the > virus checker to check. On the server side, it'd have to follow the > like to download the executable to scan, and I *really* doubt anyone > would want their mail gat

Bayes Test runs sometimes and sometimes it doesn't

2006-09-11 Thread David Reta
I am running spamassassin 3.1.5 which is being called from mimedefang. I am using bayes over nfs which is shared between 2 mail relays.   We have been having some issues with some spam getting through. I did some investigating and found out that the spam that is getting through is not ru

Re: postcard exploit email

2006-09-11 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, John D. Hardin wrote: > > Maybe we need a base rule for URL links directly to executable > content... > > href="http://www.canaltv.org/postcard.gif.exe";>http://www.e-cards.com/view/CR3090Ztyw5g527673XzW You mean like: uri __L_AUNT_EDNA1 m!\b(?:postcards?\.gif\.exe|/p

Re: postcard exploit email

2006-09-11 Thread Kelson
Sietse van Zanen wrote: And correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't ClamAV able to recursively scan URL's contained within e-mails? Yes, with the MailFollowURLs option. Thankfully, it's disabled by default. Aside from increasing bandwidth use, exposing the virus checker to potential DOS condition

RE: postcard exploit email

2006-09-11 Thread Sietse van Zanen
Yes, there are content scanning engines which can do this. They are usually based on ICAP or Checkpoints CVP. McAfee and TrendMicro supply such software. But it remains to be seen whether these interoperate with your MTA.   And correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't ClamAV able to recursively scan U

Re: postcard exploit email

2006-09-11 Thread John D. Hardin
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, David Baron wrote: > On Monday 11 September 2006 18:12, John D. Hardin wrote: > > Maybe we need a base rule for URL links directly to executable > > content... > > > > > href="http://www.canaltv.org/postcard.gif.exe";>http://www.e-cards.com/view/ > >CR3090Ztyw5g527673XzW > >

Re: Animated graphics display a subliminal message to manipulate stock market

2006-09-11 Thread Kelson
Michael Scheidell wrote: Found this one post: guess we should look for BUY!! in the animated gif? Previously seen, with sample images and comments that do some analysis of the technique, at http://www.jgc.org/blog/2006/09/subliminal-advertising-in-spam.html It's basically a variation on th

Re: postcard exploit email

2006-09-11 Thread David Baron
On Monday 11 September 2006 18:12, John D. Hardin wrote: > Maybe we need a base rule for URL links directly to executable > content... > > href="http://www.canaltv.org/postcard.gif.exe";>http://www.e-cards.com/view/ >CR3090Ztyw5g527673XzW > Any virus checkers pick this up? Been getting a lot of "

postcard exploit email

2006-09-11 Thread John D. Hardin
Maybe we need a base rule for URL links directly to executable content... http://www.canaltv.org/postcard.gif.exe";>http://www.e-cards.com/view/CR3090Ztyw5g527673XzW -- John Hardin KA7OHZICQ#15735746http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]FALaholic #11174pgpk -a [EMAIL

Re: Inconsistent Rules Firing

2006-09-11 Thread Michel Vaillancourt
Michel Vaillancourt wrote: > Bowie Bailey wrote: >> Are you sure these messages are being scanned? Take a look at the >> headers and see if there are X-Spam headers in both the marked and >> unmarked messages. If so, post those headers here so we can see what >> is hitting. >> > As I inidca

Bayes test in spamassassin.bat

2006-09-11 Thread Floyd
Hi, I am using Spamassassin with Exchange and i noticed I was getting different scores using spamassassin.bat(There was a previous post by me to this question) I have done some addtional tests and I noticed that when spamassassin.bat is run automatically on every incoming message there are no te

Re: Need help with SA and Received headers...

2006-09-11 Thread Matthias Haegele
thekillerbean schrieb: SPAM is finding it's way into my inbox and I believe it's because SPAMMERs have started using my low priority MX record which relays e-mail for my domain through my ISP - for those situations when my server is offline. afaik: this is a common method, use the backup-mx ca

Re: פריצת דרך מאתגרת

2006-09-11 Thread David Baron
Local for HEBREW is not in this list. > Windows-1255 > > and apparently with locales > > DB<6> x @locales > 0 'en' > 1 'th' > 2 'it' > 3 'en_US' > > Mail::SpamAssassin::Locales::is_charset_ok_for_locales($1, @locales) > > returns true > > Mail::SpamAssassin::Locales::is_charset_ok_for_locales(

Need help with SA and Received headers...

2006-09-11 Thread thekillerbean
SPAM is finding it's way into my inbox and I believe it's because SPAMMERs have started using my low priority MX record which relays e-mail for my domain through my ISP - for those situations when my server is offline. When I run the an IP address in the second Received: header against the www.dn

filtering by time

2006-09-11 Thread Toni Casueps
I receive some spam messages that I don't know how to make spamassassin "assassinate" them... they are very well done and I can't do much to stop them. Some of them arrive at night time, having been sent from countries with different time zones, so I have thought of making a rule that adds som

Re: pyzor: check failed: internal error

2006-09-11 Thread John Horne
On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 12:58 -0500, John Thompson wrote: > > Ok, this suggests that the error producing the internal error messages > at that time was patched with pyzor-0.4.0. I'm running pyzor-0.4.0_4, > which presumably includes the needed patch. > Not necessarily. Pyzor 0.4.0 from original so