Re: [sanesecurity] FP feedback from large sites

2011-09-10 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
d party sigs (SaneSecurity, etc). [...] Ahem. Why Cc'ing the SA users list? This thread should stay on the sanesecurity list, and *only* there. Moreover, please don't cross-post unless absolutely necessary. -- char *t="\10pse\0r\0dtu\0.@ghno\x4e\xc8\x79\xf4\xab\x51\x8a\x10\xf4\xf4\

Re: [sanesecurity] FP feedback from large sites

2011-09-10 Thread Dave Funk
rently possible to run two clamav instances in parallel ? That is exactly what I do. I have two clamav instances using seperate config files, library directories, listening on different sockets. The first runs just the official ClamAV supplied sigs, the second all the various 3rd party sigs (Sa

Re: SaneSecurity custom rules

2011-05-09 Thread Mark Martinec
> header L_AV_Unofficial X-Amavis-AV-Status =~ > m{\bAV:Sanesecurity.TestSig_Type4_Hdr.2.UNOFFICIAL\b} > Which seems to be scoring 4 just fine: > X-Spam-Status: ... tests=[.. L_AV_Unofficial=4 Indeed. > The weird part is this: > > X-Spam-Status: ... > tests=[AV:Sanesecurity.TestSig_Type4_Hdr

Re: SaneSecurity custom rules

2011-05-08 Thread darxus
On 05/08, Munroe Sollog wrote: > I am working on adding some rules to SA so that SA adds more points when > detecting a signature. Here is a pastebin of the headers and the rules: > > http://pastebin.com/qnwbSq5d > > It should be adding 4 points as per my rule, but as it is it is only > adding 0

SaneSecurity custom rules

2011-05-08 Thread Munroe Sollog
I am working on adding some rules to SA so that SA adds more points when detecting a signature. Here is a pastebin of the headers and the rules: http://pastebin.com/qnwbSq5d It should be adding 4 points as per my rule, but as it is it is only adding 0.1 points. -- Munroe Sollog Digirati Consult

Re: Messagelabs sends phish, SA+ClamAV+sanesecurity sigs catches it

2009-11-06 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
> At my end spamassassin using the ClamAV plugin, armed with the > SaneSecurity sigs detected it. So open source rocks. ;) > > The amusing part of this little scenario is that there's a messagelabs > martetdroid who's been pinging at me to try their e-mail "protection" &

Messagelabs sends phish, SA+ClamAV+sanesecurity sigs catches it

2009-11-05 Thread David B Funk
I just now found a phish in one of my spamtraps, no surprise there. The surprising thing is that it was sent out via a messagelabs.com mailserver, complete with headers indicating that it passed their virus checks. At my end spamassassin using the ClamAV plugin, armed with the SaneSecurity sigs

[steveb_cla...@sanesecurity.com: [sanesecurity] We're back...]

2009-01-21 Thread Arthur Dent
Just to inform who might be interested - SANESecurity signatures are back! AD - Forwarded message from Steve Basford - Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:31:09 + From: Steve Basford To: sanesecur...@freelists.org Reply-to: sanesecur...@freelists.org Subject: [sanesecurity] We're back

Re: Botnet plugin (was: Temporary 'Replacements' for SaneSecurity)

2009-01-15 Thread John Rudd
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 09:06, Mark Martinec wrote: > Jonas, > >> I just found one reason for FPs in the Botnet plugin. It doesn't >> make a difference between timeouts (and other DNS errors) and >> negative answers. So if your DNS server/proxy is overloaded (or >> slow for some other reason), you

Re: Botnet plugin (was: Temporary 'Replacements' for SaneSecurity)

2009-01-15 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Thu, January 15, 2009 18:06, Mark Martinec wrote: > Not to forget the long-standing DNS problem with Botnet: > http://marc.info/?l=spamassassin-users&m=118641079630268 > http://marc.info/?l=spamassassin-users&m=120783518919154 i have changed to use BadRelay from http://sa.hege.li/BadRela

Re: Botnet plugin (was: Temporary 'Replacements' for SaneSecurity)

2009-01-15 Thread Mark Martinec
Jonas, > I just found one reason for FPs in the Botnet plugin. It doesn't > make a difference between timeouts (and other DNS errors) and > negative answers. So if your DNS server/proxy is overloaded (or > slow for some other reason), you'll get FPs > > Since 15 minutes ago, I'm running a slightly

RE: Temporary 'Replacements' for SaneSecurity

2009-01-15 Thread SM
At 01:36 15-01-2009, Rasmus Haslund wrote: implement it with the SA engine running in Icewarp Merak. Anyway we do have alot of problems with FP when we try out new things and I just have to say some things just does not work good on a large scale where you have to deal with all kinds og languages

RE: Botnet plugin (was: Temporary 'Replacements' for SaneSecurity)

2009-01-15 Thread RobertH
> > I just found one reason for FPs in the Botnet plugin. It > doesn't make a difference between timeouts (and other DNS > errors) and negative answers. So if your DNS server/proxy is > overloaded (or slow for some other reason), you'll get FPs > > Since 15 minutes ago, I'm running a slight

Botnet plugin (was: Temporary 'Replacements' for SaneSecurity)

2009-01-15 Thread Jonas Eckerman
Daniel J McDonald wrote: I too found botnet to be a great source of FP. By combining it with p0f it's moderately useful. I just found one reason for FPs in the Botnet plugin. It doesn't make a difference between timeouts (and other DNS errors) and negative answers. So if your DNS server/pro

Re: Temporary 'Replacements' for SaneSecurity

2009-01-15 Thread Bret Miller
On 1/15/2009 1:36 AM, Rasmus Haslund wrote: SM wrote: "Botnet Plugin" sounds like a plugin that detect botnets ... If Rasmus is finding that many false ositives, then he's using the wrong tools. Well I am not using the botnet plugin because i am not sure how to implement

RE: Temporary 'Replacements' for SaneSecurity

2009-01-15 Thread Rasmus Haslund
SM wrote: > "Botnet Plugin" sounds like a plugin that detect botnets ... If > Rasmus is finding that many false positives, then he's using the wrong > tools. Well I am not using the botnet plugin because i am not sure how to implement it with the SA engine running in Icewarp Merak. Anyway we do

Re: Temporary 'Replacements' for SaneSecurity

2009-01-14 Thread SM
At 12:44 14-01-2009, Rob McEwen wrote: No. This is just due to the fact that, unfortunately, some mail servers and IPs (which send desired and solicited messages) are somewhat incorrectly configured. It turns out that a distributor receiving legitimate business e-mail from vendors & customers in

Re: Temporary 'Replacements' for SaneSecurity

2009-01-14 Thread mouss
Rob McEwen a écrit : > SM wrote: >> "Botnet Plugin" sounds like a plugin that detect botnets ... If >> Rasmus is finding that many false positives, then he's using the wrong >> tools. > > No. This is just due to the fact that, unfortunately, some mail servers > and IPs (which send desired and sol

Re: Temporary 'Replacements' for SaneSecurity

2009-01-14 Thread John Rudd
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 13:06, Dave Pooser wrote: >> None of my friends are on >> services that are that poorly configured > > No friends on Verizon? Their @#$% mail servers are 70% of my FPs. Heh. Guess not :-)

Re: Temporary 'Replacements' for SaneSecurity

2009-01-14 Thread Dave Pooser
> None of my friends are on > services that are that poorly configured No friends on Verizon? Their @#$% mail servers are 70% of my FPs. -- Dave Pooser Cat-Herder-in-Chief, Pooserville.com "...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in one pretty and well-preserve

Re: Temporary 'Replacements' for SaneSecurity

2009-01-14 Thread Rob McEwen
SM wrote: > "Botnet Plugin" sounds like a plugin that detect botnets ... If > Rasmus is finding that many false positives, then he's using the wrong > tools. No. This is just due to the fact that, unfortunately, some mail servers and IPs (which send desired and solicited messages) are somewhat in

Re: Temporary 'Replacements' for SaneSecurity

2009-01-14 Thread SM
lines? Isn't that technology certified for illegal content only? :-) Sanesecurity could have been better protected against DDOS attacks. They are a ripe target. Regards, -sm

Re: Temporary 'Replacements' for SaneSecurity

2009-01-14 Thread John Rudd
> -- Forwarded message -- > From: "Bret Miller" > To: "John Rudd" > Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:08:06 -0700 > Subject: RE: BOTNET Exceptions for Today >> Bret Miller wrote: > Maybe these aren't false positives because botnet is identifying them for > what they are-- badly configure

Re: Temporary 'Replacements' for SaneSecurity

2009-01-14 Thread Paul Griffith
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:23:51 -0500, John Rudd wrote: How's it working for you, so far? On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 06:12, Paul Griffith wrote: On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:28:42 -0500, si wrote: Guys, I'm sure you're as sad as I am re- temporary suspension of the brilliant services offered by S

Re: Temporary 'Replacements' for SaneSecurity

2009-01-14 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Wed, January 14, 2009 17:33, John Hardin wrote: > Is there any other distributed content distribution system they > could use for free this way? bittorrent ? (micro$oft have problem delivering windows 7 betas from there network, opensource problems ?) :=) -- Benny Pedersen Need more webspa

Re: Temporary 'Replacements' for SaneSecurity

2009-01-14 Thread Matt Garretson
Is there any way that a more distributed method of delivering updates could be more resistant to DDOS attacks? E.g. trackerless bittorrents (DHT), or something along those lines? Just wondering in general

Re: Temporary 'Replacements' for SaneSecurity

2009-01-14 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Rob McEwen wrote: QUESTIONS: Is SaneSecurity still collecting data and generating the rulesets? (but just not able to distribute them) I was wondering that myself, and was also wondering whether there was a way to leverage the Coral cache system to avoid DDoS - for

Re: Temporary 'Replacements' for SaneSecurity

2009-01-14 Thread Sanesecurity
over to sanesecurity.co.uk and sign up to the list... Cheers and thanks for all the positive comments, Steve Sanesecurity -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Temporary-%27Replacements%27-for-SaneSecurity-tp21444618p21459579.html Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Temporary 'Replacements' for SaneSecurity

2009-01-14 Thread Rob McEwen
Rob McEwen wrote: > And I thing it is > probably better used as a scoring list instead of a blocking list. > oops. I meant "probably better scored below threshold", since, of course, BotNet isn't a "list". -- Rob McEwen http://dnsbl.invaluement.com/ r...@invaluement.com +1 (478) 475-9032

Re: Temporary 'Replacements' for SaneSecurity

2009-01-14 Thread Rob McEwen
Ps than the BotNet Plugin. I did a quick cursory search of discussions about BotNet Plugin FPs. See attached for an example post I quickly grabbed after searching just a few seconds. NOTE: I'm NOT saying that the BotNet Plugin is bad or shouldn't be used. I just don't see it a

Re: Temporary 'Replacements' for SaneSecurity

2009-01-14 Thread Daniel J McDonald
her (a) find the Botnet Plugin utterly > unusable due to FPs, or (b) only be able to score it by a point or two > due to excessive FPs. (Rasmus--by all means--please don't take my word > for it--try it out and then let us know what happened!) I too found botnet to be a great source

Re: Temporary 'Replacements' for SaneSecurity

2009-01-14 Thread John Rudd
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 06:59, Rob McEwen wrote: > Regarding using the Botnet Plugin as a replacement for SaneSecurity... I > found that the _best_ part about SaneSecurity was its assistance with > catching spam that could NOT ever be caught using _any_ kind of DNSBL. Botnet isn't a DNSBL...

Re: Temporary 'Replacements' for SaneSecurity

2009-01-14 Thread Rob McEwen
or two due to excessive FPs. (Rasmus--by all means--please don't take my word for it--try it out and then let us know what happened!) Regarding using the Botnet Plugin as a replacement for SaneSecurity... I found that the _best_ part about SaneSecurity was its assistance with catching spam that coul

Re: Temporary 'Replacements' for SaneSecurity

2009-01-14 Thread si
e're still in pretty good shape, but we certainly notice that the Sane Security stuff isn't there any more.   Mup. --- On Wed, 14/1/09, John Rudd wrote: From: John Rudd Subject: Re: Temporary 'Replacements' for SaneSecurity To: "Paul Griffith" Cc: g_b...@yahoo.c

Re: Temporary 'Replacements' for SaneSecurity

2009-01-14 Thread John Rudd
How's it working for you, so far? On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 06:12, Paul Griffith wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:28:42 -0500, si wrote: > >> Guys, >> >> I'm sure you're as sad as I am re- temporary suspension of the brilliant >> services offered by Steve Basford and is helpers at Sane Security. I

RE: Temporary 'Replacements' for SaneSecurity

2009-01-14 Thread Rasmus Haslund
>After a loud outcry from our users from the increasing level of spam in their inboxes, I installed the Botnet >Plugin. Is this something that can be used with the SA in Icewarp Merak? NOWACO A/S Rasmus Haslund

Re: Temporary 'Replacements' for SaneSecurity

2009-01-14 Thread Paul Griffith
On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:28:42 -0500, si wrote: Guys,   I'm sure you're as sad as I am re- temporary suspension of the brilliant services offered by Steve Basford and is helpers at Sane Security. In a sick kind of way, the 'bad guys' are acknowledging the work these guys have done by DOSing

Temporary 'Replacements' for SaneSecurity

2009-01-13 Thread si
Guys,   I'm sure you're as sad as I am re- temporary suspension of the brilliant services offered by Steve Basford and is helpers at Sane Security. In a sick kind of way, the 'bad guys' are acknowledging the work these guys have done by DOSing them, but that doesn't help much with the daily grin

Sanesecurity sig site DDOSed

2008-12-18 Thread David B Funk
FYI for anyone using ClamAV with the Sanesecurity phish/scam signatures: Their website is being DDOSed and they've suspended updates. Please disable attempts to download/update the sigs until they manage to get out from under this attack. See: http://www.sanesecurity.co.uk/ -- Dave

Re: installing sanesecurity

2008-12-04 Thread mouss
Lists a écrit : > mouss wrote: >> Lists a écrit : >> >>> Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: >>> > Thank you for the information I will attempt to get it up an running, > have had a huge increase in spam last week or so and just trying to > get it under control. > Wha

Re: installing sanesecurity

2008-12-03 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
On 03/12/2008 9:06 PM, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: >>> Darly posted a very similar rule to this a while ago, triggering on the >>> strange cid- prefix in the live spaces URI. You can use that just as >>> well. >> Thanks I will give that rule a shot and check out the earlier post by Darly. > > Whoop

Re: installing sanesecurity

2008-12-03 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
> > Darly posted a very similar rule to this a while ago, triggering on the > > strange cid- prefix in the live spaces URI. You can use that just as > > well. > > Thanks I will give that rule a shot and check out the earlier post by Darly. Whoops. :) Daryl C. W. O'Shea I mean... Sorry Daryl. Wo

Re: installing sanesecurity

2008-12-03 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
any custom rule for the live spaces URI, including the one above as per SaneSecurity scam sigs, Daryls, and a custom one I am running locally, targeting the alphanumeric alternation. They all are direct MUA to MX transmissions, no relay. That spample (like most of these I have seen) hit RCVD_IN_BR

Re: installing sanesecurity

2008-12-03 Thread Lists
mouss wrote: Lists a écrit : Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: Thank you for the information I will attempt to get it up an running, have had a huge increase in spam last week or so and just trying to get it under control. What type of *spam* are you referring to that you want t

Re: installing sanesecurity

2008-12-03 Thread Lists
didn't you just ask how to catch these providing in example in the first place, rather than asking something strange you *guessed* might help... Yeah I had done a bit of googling and reading on the list and it seemed the sanesecurity for clamav was a good option to try. I think I will st

Re: installing sanesecurity

2008-12-03 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
Back to that spam. I assume they are all quite similar in design, text, and the spaces.live.com URI? You can *easily* get the result of that SaneSecurity scam sig in SA. uri SANESEC_9216 m~http://cid-.{0,30}\.spaces\.live \.com/blog/cns~ scoreSANESEC_9216 5.0 describe SANESEC_9216

Re: installing sanesecurity

2008-12-03 Thread mouss
Lists a écrit : > Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: >>> Thank you for the information I will attempt to get it up an running, >>> have had a huge increase in spam last week or so and just trying to >>> get it under control. >>> >> >> What type of *spam* are you referring to that you want to kill by >

Re: installing sanesecurity

2008-12-03 Thread Lists
Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: Thank you for the information I will attempt to get it up an running, have had a huge increase in spam last week or so and just trying to get it under control. What type of *spam* are you referring to that you want to kill by throwing anti-virus signatures at th

Re: installing sanesecurity

2008-12-03 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
> Thank you for the information I will attempt to get it up an running, > have had a huge increase in spam last week or so and just trying to get > it under control. What type of *spam* are you referring to that you want to kill by throwing anti-virus signatures at them? Are all of them phishing

Re: installing sanesecurity

2008-12-03 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 12:43 +1300, Lists wrote: > Arthur Dent wrote: > > The best thing to do is to download the script, put it somewhere where > > the user that will run it (possibly "clamav") has read + execute access, > > (I created a /home/clamav/ directory) and then try running it manually >

Re: installing sanesecurity

2008-12-03 Thread Lists
Arthur Dent wrote: On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 09:49:23AM +1300, Lists wrote: Hi all, I am wanting to implement the sanesecurity addins to clamav but i am a bit lost. I am running CentOS5 MailScanner Spamassassin ClamAV Do I download the download scripts from http://www.sanesecurity.com

Re: installing sanesecurity

2008-12-03 Thread Lists
Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: I am wanting to implement the sanesecurity addins to clamav but i am a bit lost. I am running CentOS5 MailScanner Spamassassin ClamAV Kate, this is the wrong mailing list. The ClamAV users list comes closest for third-party ClamAV (sic) signatures without a

Re: installing sanesecurity

2008-12-03 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
> I am wanting to implement the sanesecurity addins to clamav but i am a > bit lost. > I am running CentOS5 MailScanner Spamassassin ClamAV Kate, this is the wrong mailing list. The ClamAV users list comes closest for third-party ClamAV (sic) signatures without a list of their own

Re: installing sanesecurity

2008-12-03 Thread Arthur Dent
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 09:49:23AM +1300, Lists wrote: > Hi all, > > I am wanting to implement the sanesecurity addins to clamav but i am a > bit lost. > I am running CentOS5 MailScanner Spamassassin ClamAV > > Do I download the download scripts from > http://www

installing sanesecurity

2008-12-03 Thread Lists
Hi all, I am wanting to implement the sanesecurity addins to clamav but i am a bit lost. I am running CentOS5 MailScanner Spamassassin ClamAV Do I download the download scripts from http://www.sanesecurity.com/clamav/usage.htm or do I go to the downloads page? (they seem to be different

Re: ClamAV in SA( was: SaneSecurity)

2007-07-03 Thread Jonas Eckerman
OliverScott wrote: Is [running two instances of clamd] the following easy to do? I think it's pretty easy. Exactly how you do it depends on the platform/distribution you use. Here's what I did in FreeBSD: I copied the init script (/usr/local/etc/rc.d/clamav-clamd.sh to /usr/local/etc/rc.d

Re: ClamAV in SA( was: SaneSecurity)

2007-07-02 Thread OliverScott
e has the official databases with phishing >signatures (and some other stuff) turned on as well as the >SaneSecurity*, MSRBL* and Malware* signatures. This instance is >used by SpamAssassin for scoring mail. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/SaneSecurity-t

ClamAV in SA( was: SaneSecurity)

2007-07-02 Thread Jonas Eckerman
Craig Carriere wrote: Perhaps more a clamav question, but does anyone use the additional definitions for clam from SaneSecurity and are they helpful in the Spam Wars? We do, an I think they are. Currently I run two instances of clamd in our mail gateway. One instance has only the official

Re: SaneSecurity

2007-06-27 Thread Bill Landry
John Rudd wrote the following on 6/27/2007 10:27 AM -0800: > Bret Miller wrote: >>> Perhaps more a clamav question, but does anyone use the additional >>> definitions for clam from SaneSecurity and are they helpful in the >>> Spam Wars? >> >> You'r

Re: SaneSecurity

2007-06-27 Thread Marc Perkel
I'm using it and I really like it. Very effective.

Re: SaneSecurity

2007-06-27 Thread Matthias Häker
Craig Carriere schrieb: Perhaps more a clamav question, but does anyone use the additional definitions for clam from SaneSecurity and are they helpful in the Spam Wars? Thanks very effective" M. Häker

RE: SaneSecurity

2007-06-27 Thread Bret Miller
> Bret Miller wrote: > >> Perhaps more a clamav question, but does anyone use the additional > >> definitions for clam from SaneSecurity and are they helpful > >> in the Spam Wars? > > > > You're in luck! I just installed them yesterday. Had been >

RE: SaneSecurity

2007-06-27 Thread Rick Cooper
> -Original Message- > From: John Rudd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 1:27 PM > To: Bret Miller > Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: SaneSecurity > > Bret Miller wrote: > >> Perhaps more a clamav

Re: SaneSecurity

2007-06-27 Thread John Rudd
Bret Miller wrote: Perhaps more a clamav question, but does anyone use the additional definitions for clam from SaneSecurity and are they helpful in the Spam Wars? You're in luck! I just installed them yesterday. Had been meaning to for a while, but things have been too busy to get the s

RE: SaneSecurity

2007-06-27 Thread Bret Miller
> Perhaps more a clamav question, but does anyone use the additional > definitions for clam from SaneSecurity and are they helpful > in the Spam Wars? You're in luck! I just installed them yesterday. Had been meaning to for a while, but things have been too busy to get the scr

SaneSecurity

2007-06-27 Thread Craig Carriere
Perhaps more a clamav question, but does anyone use the additional definitions for clam from SaneSecurity and are they helpful in the Spam Wars? Thanks