Re: Botnet 0.7 Plugin is available

2006-12-31 Thread Thomas Bolioli
See below for content. I forgot to send this to the list. John Rudd wrote: Thomas Bolioli wrote: It seems to have an issue with mail sent through forwarders like alumni accounts and one mail type systems. I am sending you a note off line with the details. No... it doesn't look that way at a

Re: Botnet 0.7 Plugin is available

2006-12-28 Thread John Rudd
Thomas Bolioli wrote: It seems to have an issue with mail sent through forwarders like alumni accounts and one mail type systems. I am sending you a note off line with the details. No... it doesn't look that way at all. If you read the spam report headers, it clearly states what the problem

Re: Botnet 0.7 Plugin is available

2006-12-27 Thread Thomas Bolioli
John Rudd wrote: Botnet 0.7 is up and available. http://people.ucsc.edu/~jrudd/spamassassin/Botnet-0.7.tar Botnet is a SpamAssassin plugin which attempts to identify hosts which are likely to be spambot/virusbot hosts, using various DNS fingerprints of the submitting relay. New things i

Re: Botnet 0.7 Plugin is available

2006-12-25 Thread John Rudd
Codger wrote: I keep getting this error generated in the console (OS X 10.4.8 with Perl 5.8.6 I believe). Dec 25 18:49:07 mail spamd[2660]: Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /etc/mail/spamassassin/Botnet.pm line 564, line 69.\n Eventually the spamd child processes stop processing a

Re: Botnet 0.7 Plugin is available

2006-12-25 Thread Codger
I keep getting this error generated in the console (OS X 10.4.8 with Perl 5.8.6 I believe). Dec 25 18:49:07 mail spamd[2660]: Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /etc/mail/spamassassin/Botnet.pm line 564, line 69.\n Eventually the spamd child processes stop processing and then fin

Re: Botnet 0.7 Plugin is available

2006-12-22 Thread Rob Mangiafico
On Fri, 22 Dec 2006, John Rudd wrote: > >>> 8) The file Botnet.variations.txt exists now with different suggested > >>> alternative ways to do Botnet rules. > > > > Thanks for this. We have to use the meta method to have BOTNET not trigger > > when other rules hit to avoid collateral damage on c

Re: Botnet 0.7 Plugin is available

2006-12-22 Thread John Rudd
Rob Mangiafico wrote: On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, John Rudd wrote: 1) BOTNET_SOHO -- If the sender's (chosen from Envelope-From, Return-Path, or From, in that order) mail domain (the part after the @ sign) resolves back to the relay's IP address, or has an MX host which resolves back to the IP addres

Re: Botnet 0.7 Plugin is available

2006-12-21 Thread Rob Mangiafico
On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, John Rudd wrote: > > 1) BOTNET_SOHO -- If the sender's (chosen from Envelope-From, > > Return-Path, or From, in that order) mail domain (the part after the @ > > sign) resolves back to the relay's IP address, or has an MX host which > > resolves back to the IP address, AND t

READ THIS (was: Re: Botnet 0.7 Plugin is available)

2006-12-21 Thread John Rudd
Botnet.pm had a small problem in it (I rewrote the IPINHOSTNAME check, and forgot one of the 4 stanzas, so some hosts may have gotten past it). I've put up a new version of the tar file with the problem fixed. Since there weren't any other problems, I'm not incrementing the version number or

Botnet 0.7 Plugin is available

2006-12-21 Thread John Rudd
Botnet 0.7 is up and available. http://people.ucsc.edu/~jrudd/spamassassin/Botnet-0.7.tar Botnet is a SpamAssassin plugin which attempts to identify hosts which are likely to be spambot/virusbot hosts, using various DNS fingerprints of the submitting relay. New things in 0.7: 1) BOTNET