Excel Stock Spam

2007-07-21 Thread Matthias Haeker
Hi i received a Spam Email with an Excel File as Atachment may some one want to have a look on a sample http://its-h.de/spam_sample/xls_spam.txt -- IT Service Häker Matthias Häker Fettstr. 3 20357 Hamburg Tel: +49 (0)40 98238807 Fax: +49 (0)40 52596583 Mob: +49 (0)176 65571482

Re: Scores for recent stock spam

2007-07-16 Thread John D. Hardin
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 14:51 +0100, Alexis Manning wrote: > > What are people getting for the following stock spam? Ones like this keep > > scoring just under 5 for me. > > Same here, just under 5.0 and a lot... > > htt

Re: Scores for recent stock spam

2007-07-16 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 14:51 +0100, Alexis Manning wrote: > What are people getting for the following stock spam? Ones like this keep > scoring just under 5 for me. > Same here, just under 5.0 and a lot... http://esmtp.webtent.net/clean-ZGw0SdPapnBE Anyone able to catch these? -- Robert

Scores for recent stock spam

2007-07-16 Thread Alexis Manning
What are people getting for the following stock spam? Ones like this keep scoring just under 5 for me. I am running a good wodge of the SARE rules, Imageinfo, ixHash, FuzzyOCR, Botnet, plus custom rules that penalise emails not sent directly to me and those sent via various spammy countries

Re: stock spam

2007-07-06 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jul 6, 2007, at 05:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just out of curiosity: would the codes WKN or ISIN (in the same mail) make any sense, other than in the context of stocks? http://www.google.com/search?q=ISIN+WKN Results 1 - 10 of about 2,540,000 for ISIN WKN. (0.04 seconds) Looks like Ger

stock spam

2007-07-06 Thread hamann . w
just out of curiosity: would the codes WKN or ISIN (in the same mail) make any sense, other than in the context of stocks? Wolfgang

Re: stock spam with pdf

2007-06-20 Thread arni
Robert Schetterer schrieb: http://www.forbes.com/security/2007/06/20/stock-spam-internet-tech-security-cx_ag_0620spam.html Got like 7 of them, all look pretty much like this: X-Spam-Report: * 5.5 BAYES_99 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 99 to 100% * [score: 0.9998

stock spam with pdf

2007-06-20 Thread Robert Schetterer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi @ll, here is some more info http://www.forbes.com/security/2007/06/20/stock-spam-internet-tech-security-cx_ag_0620spam.html - -- Mit freundlichen Gruessen Best Regards Robert Schetterer https://www.schetterer.org Germany -BEGIN PGP

Re: stock spam

2007-05-25 Thread Raymond Dijkxhoorn
amassassin 3.1.8 with some of the SARE Rules. Has anybody an idea what I can do to catch these Stock Spam? We will add new rules to the SARE stock set to catch up with these. Bye, Raymond.

stock spam

2007-05-25 Thread Stefan Jakobs
amassassin 3.1.8 with some of the SARE Rules. Has anybody an idea what I can do to catch these Stock Spam? Bye Stefan pgpsAs0o9fPkA.pgp Description: PGP signature

RE: Stock Spam Getting Through

2007-02-22 Thread Martin.Hepworth
] > Sent: 22 February 2007 15:33 > To: SpamAssassin List > Subject: Re: Stock Spam Getting Through > > This might be identical to one I got today. I put it up clean at: > http://2chronicles36.org/spam/stock.txt > > I'm also on 3.1.7 with latest update, all the net

Re: Stock Spam Getting Through

2007-02-22 Thread Andy Figueroa
This might be identical to one I got today. I put it up clean at: http://2chronicles36.org/spam/stock.txt I'm also on 3.1.7 with latest update, all the network tests, plus FuzzyOcr.cf and KAM.cf, otherwise no extras. Andy Figueroa David Goldsmith wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Ha

Stock Spam Getting Through

2007-02-21 Thread David Goldsmith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 We're running SA 3.1.7 with most of the SARE rulesets, including 70_sare_stocks. We're using DCC, Pyzor and Razor. The 'X-SA-Exim-*' headers are from the source, not us. Any suggestions as to other tests/checks that could be done to bump the scores

Re: New stock spam (2/14/07)

2007-02-15 Thread LuKreme
On 14-Feb-2007, at 16:43, Jonathan Nichols wrote: http://www.pbp.net/~jnichols/spam2.txt X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=12.2 required=5.0 tests=BOTNET,BOTNET_NORDNS, HTML_FONT_BIG,HTML_MESSAGE,RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET,RCVD_IN_XBL, SARE_LWSHORTT,SARE_PROLOSTOCK_SYM3 autolearn=spam versi

Re: New stock spam (2/14/07)

2007-02-15 Thread Chris Lear
* Jonathan Nichols wrote (15/02/07 05:19): Maciej Friedel wrote: On 02/14/07 Jonathan wrote: http://www.pbp.net/~jnichols/spam2.txt 0.0 BOTNET_NORDNS IP address has no PTR record 0.1 HTML_50_60 BODY: Message is 50% to 60% HTML 0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message 1.0 BAYES_50

Re: New stock spam (2/14/07)

2007-02-14 Thread Quinn Comendant
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 22:41:45 -0500, Billy Huddleston wrote: > Here is a one I've been getting.. I use a older version of spambot, > SARE, and Network tests.. to no avail.. > > http://www.pastebin.ca/356543 I get... Content analysis details: (13.4 points, 4.9 required) pts rule name

Re: New stock spam (2/14/07)

2007-02-14 Thread Evan Platt
At 03:43 PM 2/14/2007, Jonathan Nichols wrote: Ugh! http://www.pbp.net/~jnichols/spam2.txt I've been getting absolutely hammered with these spams. I had over 50 in my inbox this morning. Any rulesets to deal with them? They're scoring lower and lower all the time. The one I linked to scored

Re: New stock spam (2/14/07)

2007-02-14 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Maciej Friedel wrote: On 02/14/07 Jonathan wrote: http://www.pbp.net/~jnichols/spam2.txt 0.0 BOTNET_NORDNS IP address has no PTR record 0.1 HTML_50_60 BODY: Message is 50% to 60% HTML 0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message 1.0 BAYES_50 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 40 to 6

Re: New stock spam (2/14/07)

2007-02-14 Thread Peter Russell
Scored very highly for me Content analysis details: (19.0 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description -- -- 5.0 BOTNET Relay might be a spambot or virusbot [botnet0.7,ip=211.48.218.

Re: New stock spam (2/14/07)

2007-02-14 Thread Billy Huddleston
Here is a one I've been getting.. I use a older version of spambot, SARE, and Network tests.. to no avail.. http://www.pastebin.ca/356543 - Original Message - From: "Brian Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 9:37 PM Subject: [SPA

RE: New stock spam (2/14/07)

2007-02-14 Thread Quinn Comendant
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 02:48:44 +0100, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: > Nah! You cheat! Bayes did already learn this message, right? :) ;DDD Not intentionally... but we use bayes_auto_learn, so maybe it found it already. Here's an idea for fun: run a "who scores the highest" competition. Put online 50

Re: New stock spam (2/14/07)

2007-02-14 Thread Brian Wilson
On Feb 14, 2007, at 8:48 PM, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: From: Quinn Comendant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 01:18:46 +0100, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: I think SARE and some network tests are even better (scores 11.5 with my surprising Bayes :) I agree, mine scored it in a

RE: New stock spam (2/14/07)

2007-02-14 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
From: Quinn Comendant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 01:18:46 +0100, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: > > I think SARE and some network tests are even better (scores 11.5 with > > my surprising Bayes :) > > I agree, mine scored it in a similar way: > > Content analysis details: (

RE: New stock spam (2/14/07)

2007-02-14 Thread Quinn Comendant
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 01:18:46 +0100, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: > I think SARE and some network tests are even better (scores 11.5 with > my surprising Bayes :) I agree, mine scored it in a similar way: Content analysis details: (11.5 points, 4.9 required) pts rule name descripti

RE: New stock spam (2/14/07)

2007-02-14 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
From: Maciej Friedel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On 02/14/07 Jonathan wrote: > > > http://www.pbp.net/~jnichols/spam2.txt > > 0.0 BOTNET_NORDNS IP address has no PTR record > 0.1 HTML_50_60 BODY: Message is 50% to 60% HTML > 0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message > 1.0 BAYES_50

Re: New stock spam (2/14/07)

2007-02-14 Thread Maciej Friedel
On 02/14/07 Jonathan wrote: > http://www.pbp.net/~jnichols/spam2.txt 0.0 BOTNET_NORDNS IP address has no PTR record 0.1 HTML_50_60 BODY: Message is 50% to 60% HTML 0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message 1.0 BAYES_50 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 40 to 60% [score: 0.5002] 5.0

Re: New stock spam (2/14/07)

2007-02-14 Thread Kelson
Jonathan Nichols wrote: Any rulesets to deal with them? They're scoring lower and lower all the time. The one I linked to scored -2 :-( It looks like it tripped BAYES_00. Have you been running these through sa-learn as spam? That should help, to start. -- Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Communicat

New stock spam (2/14/07)

2007-02-14 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Ugh! http://www.pbp.net/~jnichols/spam2.txt I've been getting absolutely hammered with these spams. I had over 50 in my inbox this morning. Any rulesets to deal with them? They're scoring lower and lower all the time. The one I linked to scored -2 :-(

Re: RE: More stock spam + strange cf files

2007-02-09 Thread Loren Wilton
* 2.7 SARE_PROLOSTOCK_SYM4 BODY: Last week's hot stock scam * 1.7 SARE_LWSYMFMT BODY: SARE_LWSYMFMT I don't know if these SARE rules have been written since you posted this email though... Nope. They are rather old. About the same age as LW_STOCK_SPAM4 that is annoying the Blackberry crow

Re: Re[2]: More stock spam + strange cf files

2007-02-09 Thread Loren Wilton
Pardon my ignorance here, but it is full of mis-spellings and phrases that you wouldn't normally see, so why not just hit those? "aid you to know" "C O S T" "brroker" "ama zing" Peter 1) Most people can't spell these days. These phrases might hit all over the place on ham. 2) These hadn't bee

Re: RE: More stock spam + strange cf files

2007-02-09 Thread Ben Wylie
Chris Santerre wrote: > These guys are just rolling in scott free except for bayes. > See http://2chronicles36.org/stock.txt > > I'm using 3.1.7 with latest sa-update + FuzzyOCR.cf & KAM.cf I must say, that a pretty well done spam. Whoever wrote it put some thought into the phrasing. This o

RE: Re[2]: More stock spam + strange cf files

2007-02-09 Thread Chris Santerre
> >> > >> These guys are just rolling in scott free except for bayes. > >> See http://2chronicles36.org/stock.txt > >> > >> I'm using 3.1.7 with latest sa-update + FuzzyOCR.cf & KAM.cf > >> > > > >I must say, that a pretty well done spam. Whoever wrote it put some > thought > >into the phrasing.

Re[2]: More stock spam + strange cf files

2007-02-09 Thread Peter Nitschke
On 9/02/2007 at 10:06 AM Chris Santerre wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: Andy Figueroa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 9:31 AM >> To: SpamAssassin Users List >> Subject: More stock spam + strange cf files >> >>

RE: More stock spam + strange cf files

2007-02-09 Thread Chris Santerre
> -Original Message- > From: Andy Figueroa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 9:31 AM > To: SpamAssassin Users List > Subject: More stock spam + strange cf files > > > These guys are just rolling in scott free except for bayes. > S

Re: More stock spam + strange cf files

2007-02-09 Thread Matt Kettler
Andy Figueroa wrote: > These guys are just rolling in scott free except for bayes. > See http://2chronicles36.org/stock.txt > > I'm using 3.1.7 with latest sa-update + FuzzyOCR.cf & KAM.cf > > Oops, I just found the following in my /etc/mail/spamassassin > directory, and I don't know where they cam

More stock spam + strange cf files

2007-02-09 Thread Andy Figueroa
These guys are just rolling in scott free except for bayes. See http://2chronicles36.org/stock.txt I'm using 3.1.7 with latest sa-update + FuzzyOCR.cf & KAM.cf Oops, I just found the following in my /etc/mail/spamassassin directory, and I don't know where they came from: tripwire.cf random.cf

Re: Stock Spam

2006-11-30 Thread Vivek Khera
On Nov 29, 2006, at 6:16 PM, san wrote: Yeah Giampaolo. with 3.1x it should be alright. But my superior is still stick to the old one..:( Does he also use 3 year old antivirus software with no updates? At least updating SA is pretty much zero cost other than a few minutes of time.

Re: Stock Spam

2006-11-29 Thread san
ears that you aren't running either Bayes or network > tests. > Bayes_99 has always been a real good way to get rid of spam. Here it is > 3.5 > points. On 2.6 I think it was closer to 4.0 points or maybe more. Note > there is also another 7+ points to be had from networ

Re: Stock Spam

2006-11-29 Thread Loren Wilton
Thanks for ur inputs. when i put across SA this is what i get on my pc.. Content analysis details: (2.3 points, 4.5 required) pts rule name description -- -- 1.0 Local_Signup BODY: Body mentions Sign

Re: Stock Spam

2006-11-29 Thread Loren Wilton
I am recieving lot of stock related spam mails which spam assassin is not able catch as spam. I have added Sare_stcok.cf file. I cant use imageinfo, fuzzy ocr as iam using 2.6o ver of spam assassin i think. I have enclosed the undecoded letter mail of one kind below. Can you plz help me to make th

RE: Stock Spam

2006-11-29 Thread san
> 0.5 HTML_TITLE_EMPTY BODY: HTML title contains no text > > It's time to switch to 3.1.7, San. Isn't it? :) > > giampaolo > > >> >> >> Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: >> > >> > From: san [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] &

Re: Stock Spam

2006-11-29 Thread Jonathan Nichols
It's time to switch to 3.1.7, San. Isn't it? :) giampaolo It was time a long time ago. :-) The upgrade is good. sa-update is a useful tool.

RE: Stock Spam

2006-11-29 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
t; > > From: san [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 11:33 PM > >> To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > >> Subject: Stock Spam > >> > >> > >> > >> Hi All, > >> > >> I am reci

RE: Stock Spam

2006-11-29 Thread san
message 0.5 HTML_TITLE_EMPTY BODY: HTML title contains no text Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: > > From: san [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 11:33 PM >> To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >> Subject: Stock Spam >> >> >>

RE: Stock Spam

2006-11-29 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
From: san [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 11:33 PM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Stock Spam > > > > Hi All, > > I am recieving lot of stock related spam mails which spam assassin is not > able catch as spam. I ha

Re: Stock Spam

2006-11-29 Thread san
.1.7, then use sa-update. 2.6x is ancient. > > -- > Randomly Selected Tagline: > "A way out of financial mess is discovered as if by magic!" > - stupid fortune cookie > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Stock-

Re: Stock Spam

2006-11-29 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 02:33:02PM -0800, san wrote: > able catch as spam. I have added Sare_stcok.cf file. I cant use imageinfo, > fuzzy ocr as iam using 2.6o ver of spam assassin i think. I have enclosed > the undecoded letter mail of one kind below. Can you plz help me to make > this kind of mai

Stock Spam

2006-11-29 Thread san
qRQGqVI2qRUWqXA IqUrZKVauqVcypNY+qVgKi1dOqZk6hZheqZoShZluqZsWkdpukBtGqdyShVvCqdzeqd4ehN1mkB5 WkB7yqd9GqiCihJ/ikCDGkCFmqiK+oGHN+o/i/qokBqpkjqplPpCjXqpmJqp91Op7KOpnvqpoGo9 nDqqpFqqpnqqqAp/obqqZJqqrhqmAQEAOw== 305E3064BA67-- -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Stock-Spam-tf2728271.html#a7609498 Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: CHNC - stock spam

2006-11-28 Thread Igor Chudov
most of the stock spam, but today I received a couple of spam peddling > stocks of CHNC. This spam is so perfect that it's getting negative > scores and not matchign any of the SARE rules. Any one with same > experience? > > raj

Re: CNHC - stock spam

2006-11-26 Thread David Goldsmith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rajkumar S wrote: > Hi, > > I am using the latest SARE stocks rules, and my spamassassin catches > most of the stock spam, but today I received a couple of spam peddling > stocks of CNHC. This spam is so perfect that it's getti

Re: CNHC - stock spam

2006-11-25 Thread Loren Wilton
I seem to have exactly one for that stock today. It had so much obfuscation that I missed it was a stock spam. However, one SARE rule hit, and one of Theo's hit, along with the usual collection of network tests. Loren

CNHC - stock spam

2006-11-25 Thread Rajkumar S
Hi, I am using the latest SARE stocks rules, and my spamassassin catches most of the stock spam, but today I received a couple of spam peddling stocks of CNHC. This spam is so perfect that it's getting negative scores and not matchign any of the SARE rules. Any one with same experience? raj

RE: Not all Stock Spam is bad

2006-11-21 Thread Randal, Phil
om: DAve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 20 November 2006 17:41 > To: spamassassin > Subject: Not all Stock Spam is bad > > I had my html turned on in my MUA this morning going through my spam > box. I saw a stock spam with a background image designed to > confuse OCR

RE: Not all Stock Spam is bad

2006-11-21 Thread Chris Santerre
> -Original Message- > From: Jim Maul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 2:36 PM > To: spamassassin > Subject: Re: Not all Stock Spam is bad > > > DAve wrote: > > Randal, Phil wrote: > >> With FuzzyOCR 3.4.2 and using

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
ge- From: Dylan Bouterse >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 October 2006 14:38 To: >> users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Stock spam in images >> >> I'm a newbie to the list and have been scanning recent posts to >> see if what I'm about to ask about ha

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 >

R: Stock spam in images

2006-10-02 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
ike SA 3.2 will let us do that in a sane manner. > > Phil > -- > Phil Randal > Network Engineer > Herefordshire Council > Hereford, UK > > > -Original Message- > > From: Fabien GARZIANO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 02 October 2006 16:1

R: Stock spam in images

2006-10-02 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
The real problem is the potentially fuzzy output from the ocr engine: shure all the copies of the very same spam would be detected the same, but what about slightly different copies? Would the "use the sa force" approach be feasible? The use of String::Approx in fuzzyocr has shurely a meaning, b

RE: Stock spam in images

2006-10-02 Thread Brent Kennedy
. Was bugging me. :) -Original Message- From: Dylan Bouterse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 9:38 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Stock spam in images I'm a newbie to the list and have been scanning recent posts to see if what I'm abou

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

R: Stock spam in images

2006-10-02 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
> 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 b

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
AIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 02 October 2006 14:38 > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Stock spam in images > > 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 anythi

R: Stock spam in images

2006-10-02 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
> > ...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 (and, maybe, the fa

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

R: Stock spam in images

2006-10-02 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
> 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 typically following the ima

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
15:38 À : users@spamassassin.apache.org Objet : Stock spam in images 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 th

Stock spam in images

2006-10-02 Thread Dylan Bouterse
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 typically following the image is random

Re: Image-only stock spam -- nice try!

2006-08-28 Thread Plenz
OCR feature already in 2005. Unfortunately SPAVI is rather unknown since it is an online program and I can not publish it on all those free software pages. http://www.spavi.de SPAVI - the online spam and virus killer -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Image-only-stock-spam--

Re: Pse help stock spam

2006-08-27 Thread John Fleming
- Original Message - From: "jdow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2006 9:51 PM Subject: Re: Pse help stock spam From: "John Fleming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> My server is getting more and more "stock spam" with an image and a

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. Toda

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

Graphics Stock Spam

2006-07-02 Thread Marc Perkel
For what it's worth, I'm bouncing messages that contain mime gif and jpg files if no reverse DNS is set. It's getting rid of some of it.

Re: On bichromatic GIF stock spam

2006-07-01 Thread Philip Prindeville
Loren Wilton wrote: >>No, I was thinking of multipart/alternative where one of the >>alternative streams is nothing but images. That doesn't strike me as >>legitimate. Can anyone think of a scenario where images *are* a >>legitimate alternative representation of text? >> >> > >Doesn't really h

Re: On bichromatic GIF stock spam

2006-06-25 Thread Loren Wilton
> No, I was thinking of multipart/alternative where one of the > alternative streams is nothing but images. That doesn't strike me as > legitimate. Can anyone think of a scenario where images *are* a > legitimate alternative representation of text? Doesn't really help. The actual mails have a tin

Re: On bichromatic GIF stock spam

2006-06-25 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 12:49:17PM -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote: > >No, I was thinking of multipart/alternative where one of the > >alternative streams is nothing but images. That doesn't strike me as > >legitimate. Can anyone think of a scenario where images *are* a > >legitimate alternative re

Re: On bichromatic GIF stock spam

2006-06-25 Thread John D. Hardin
On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, David B Funk wrote: > On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, John D. Hardin wrote: > > > > No, I was thinking of multipart/alternative where one of the > > alternative streams is nothing but images. That doesn't strike me as > > legitimate. Can anyone think of a scenario where images *are* a >

Re: On bichromatic GIF stock spam

2006-06-25 Thread David B Funk
On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, John D. Hardin wrote: > On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, Philip Prindeville wrote: > > > John D. Hardin wrote: > > > > >On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Philip Prindeville wrote: > > > > > >>The spammers send multipart/alternative > > >>because they want the text/plain section to confuse the Bayes >

Re: On bichromatic GIF stock spam

2006-06-25 Thread Philip Prindeville
John D. Hardin wrote: >On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, Philip Prindeville wrote: > > > >>John D. Hardin wrote: >> >> >> >>>On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Philip Prindeville wrote: >>> >>> >>> The spammers send multipart/alternative because they want the text/plain section to confuse the Bayes f

Re: On bichromatic GIF stock spam

2006-06-25 Thread John D. Hardin
On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, Philip Prindeville wrote: > John D. Hardin wrote: > > >On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Philip Prindeville wrote: > > > >>The spammers send multipart/alternative > >>because they want the text/plain section to confuse the Bayes > >>filters, since they know it won't be rendered... > > > >

Re: On bichromatic GIF stock spam

2006-06-25 Thread Philip Prindeville
John D. Hardin wrote: >On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Philip Prindeville wrote: > > > >>the text and the images. The spammers send multipart/alternative >>because they want the text/plain section to confuse the Bayes >>filters, since they know it won't be rendered... >> >> > >It seems to me that righ

Re: On bichromatic GIF stock spam

2006-06-25 Thread John D. Hardin
On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Philip Prindeville wrote: > the text and the images. The spammers send multipart/alternative > because they want the text/plain section to confuse the Bayes > filters, since they know it won't be rendered... It seems to me that right there is the spam sign you should be look

Re: On bichromatic GIF stock spam

2006-06-24 Thread Philip Prindeville
Loren Wilton wrote: >>If, after excluding black, we find that 100% of the color map is that >>nasty pastel pink or pastel lime green (etc) then it's a spam and we >>toss it. >> >>Sound reasonable? >> >> > >I was thinking about this the other day. I think the concept is reasonable, >but as sta

Re: On bichromatic GIF stock spam

2006-06-24 Thread Loren Wilton
> If, after excluding black, we find that 100% of the color map is that > nasty pastel pink or pastel lime green (etc) then it's a spam and we > toss it. > > Sound reasonable? I was thinking about this the other day. I think the concept is reasonable, but as stated doesn't go far enough, and woul

Re: On bichromatic GIF stock spam

2006-06-24 Thread Philip Prindeville
Michael Scheidell wrote: >>-Original Message- >>From: Philip Prindeville [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2006 2:10 PM >>To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >>Subject: On bichromatic GIF stock spam >> >> >>I get a lot o

RE: On bichromatic GIF stock spam

2006-06-24 Thread Michael Scheidell
> -Original Message- > From: Philip Prindeville [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2006 2:10 PM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: On bichromatic GIF stock spam > > > I get a lot of spam that looks like: > > http://pasteb

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