Re: Stock spam in images

2006-10-04 Thread Jorge Valdes
Jason Haar wrote: I'm having marvelous luck with FuzzyOCR - but the spammers are learning too. When I first started using it just a couple of months ago, it really whacked the image-based spam. You could see why when "gocr file.gif" returned nice text that was easy to match against. However, no

RE: Stock spam in images

2006-10-04 Thread Chris Santerre
Title: RE: Stock spam in images Greetings list,     The old timers on the list know I tend to try things outside the norm. Like my strong resistence to sitewide bayes. Well for months I've been using a simpler approach to these Stock Spams w/ images. I don't look at the im

Re: Stock spam in images

2006-10-03 Thread Jason Haar
I'm having marvelous luck with FuzzyOCR - but the spammers are learning too. When I first started using it just a couple of months ago, it really whacked the image-based spam. You could see why when "gocr file.gif" returned nice text that was easy to match against. However, now is a different mat

RE: Stock spam in images

2006-10-03 Thread Balzi Andrea
For Debian Users I've found the follow link, a step by step guide in order to implement FuzzyOCR and ImageInfo with spamassassin. http://www200.pair.com/mecham/spam/image_spam.html Andrea

RE: Stock spam in images

2006-10-02 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Tue, October 3, 2006 00:01, Gary V wrote: >> For installing the ImageInfo plugin where do you put the ImageInfo.pm >> without defining a path? Im running CentOS4.4 & Fedora Core 5 as test >> machines. > This should find your Plugin directory (which is where you place it): > find /usr -type d -

RE: Stock spam in images

2006-10-02 Thread Gary V
For installing the ImageInfo plugin where do you put the ImageInfo.pm without defining a path? Im running CentOS4.4 & Fedora Core 5 as test machines. Thanks! Wilson This should find your Plugin directory (which is where you place it): find /usr -type d -name Plugin Gary V

RE: Stock spam in images

2006-10-02 Thread Chan, Wilson
> -Original Message- > From: Randal, Phil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 3:58 AM > To: Dylan Bouterse; users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: RE: Stock spam in images > > This has been covered so many times on this list. > > 1: if

Re: Stock spam in images

2006-10-02 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 11:05:38AM -0500, Stuart Johnston wrote: > Would it also be possible to create a rule that matches on text rendered > specifically from a non-text part and not the whole body? That way you You'd have to do that in a plugin, but otherwise, sure. There's currently no meth

Re: Stock spam in images

2006-10-02 Thread decoder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Randal, Phil wrote: > This has been covered so many times on this list. > > 1: if you're not on spamassassin 3.1.5 get it now, and run > sa-update (via a cron job daily, but test first with a manual > sa-update -D) > > 2: pop over to http://www.rules

Re: Stock spam in images

2006-10-02 Thread decoder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Theo Van Dinter wrote: > On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 03:18:58PM +0100, Randal, Phil wrote: >>> undetected). Wouldn't it be better to inject the detected >>> text back to SA? There should be enough variants of spam >>> worlds to let SA fuzzily catch the one

RE: Stock spam in images

2006-10-02 Thread Bret Miller
> > ...omissis... > > > > How about the FuzzyOCR plugin? That has been discussed quite a bit > > here recently. > > > > http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/FuzzyOcrPlugin > > > > -- > > Bowie > > And, by the way, it seems to work! > > Actually, the only limit I see is the own-made FuzzyOcr.words >

RE: Stock spam in images

2006-10-02 Thread Brent Kennedy
Newbie is a derogatory term and to call yourself a newbie is like calling yourself a moron(no offense). >From Wiki: A newbie is a newcomer to a particular field, the term being commonly used on the Internet, where it might refer to new, inexperienced, or ignorant users of a game, a newsgroup, an o

RE: Stock spam in images

2006-10-02 Thread Randal, Phil
ner. Phil -- Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK > -Original Message- > From: Fabien GARZIANO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 02 October 2006 16:11 > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: RE: Stock spam in images > > > Too bad

Re: Stock spam in images

2006-10-02 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Stuart Johnston wrote: Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 03:18:58PM +0100, Randal, Phil wrote: undetected). Wouldn't it be better to inject the detected text back to SA? There should be enough variants of spam worlds to let SA fuzzily catch the ones from images. I think so.

Re: Stock spam in images

2006-10-02 Thread Stuart Johnston
Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 03:18:58PM +0100, Randal, Phil wrote: undetected). Wouldn't it be better to inject the detected text back to SA? There should be enough variants of spam worlds to let SA fuzzily catch the ones from images. I think so. Some of the words would be p

RE: Stock spam in images

2006-10-02 Thread Fabien GARZIANO
sleep -Message d'origine- De : Randal, Phil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : lundi 2 octobre 2006 16:19 À : users@spamassassin.apache.org Objet : RE: Stock spam in images Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: > And, by the way, it seems to work! > > Actually, the only limit I

Re: Stock spam in images

2006-10-02 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 03:18:58PM +0100, Randal, Phil wrote: > > undetected). Wouldn't it be better to inject the detected > > text back to SA? There should be enough variants of spam > > worlds to let SA fuzzily catch the ones from images. > > I think so. Some of the words would be perfectly

RE: Stock spam in images

2006-10-02 Thread Randal, Phil
Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: > And, by the way, it seems to work! > > Actually, the only limit I see is the own-made FuzzyOcr.words > (and, maybe, the fact that script text may probably get > undetected). Wouldn't it be better to inject the detected > text back to SA? There should be enough vari

RE: Stock spam in images

2006-10-02 Thread Randal, Phil
This has been covered so many times on this list. 1: if you're not on spamassassin 3.1.5 get it now, and run sa-update (via a cron job daily, but test first with a manual sa-update -D) 2: pop over to http://www.rulesemporium.com and get an appropriate selection of their rules, and configure Rul

RE: Stock spam in images

2006-10-02 Thread Dylan Bouterse
-Original Message- From: Bowie Bailey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 9:46 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: Stock spam in images Dylan Bouterse wrote: > I'm a newbie to the list and have been scanning recent posts to see if > what I

RE: Stock spam in images

2006-10-02 Thread Bowie Bailey
Dylan Bouterse wrote: > I'm a newbie to the list and have been scanning recent posts to see if > what I'm about to ask about has been covered but I haven't seen > anything yet. > > Lately I have been getting more and more of the stock alert spam but > now all the good info is in an image and typic

RE: Stock spam in images

2006-10-02 Thread Fabien GARZIANO
Have been answered few threads ago and more... May be you didn't scan enough ^^ You can use FuzzyOCR module (But dont ask me how to use, I've never tried ^^) -Message d'origine- De : Dylan Bouterse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : lundi 2 octobre 2006 15:38 À : users@spamassassin.apa