Re: Words with embedded symbols

2012-11-12 Thread Cathryn Mataga
Here's another version. This successfully recognises all four of your examples and doesn't fire on any of my other spam test messages: describe MG_TWOLETTER_OBFUSCATION Two letter obfuscation (X:X X :X)) header MG_TWOLETTER_OBFUSCATION Subject =~ /[A-Z][:%~;^][A-Z]\s{0,1}[:%~;^][A-Z0

Re: Words with embedded symbols

2012-10-05 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Fri, 2012-10-05 at 10:17 -0700, Cathryn Mataga wrote: > Thanks for the comments. I'll see if I can cook something up here. > Someone asked to see the > actual messages. > > I collected 4 of these messages and put them at this link. > > http://www.mataga.net/mataga/spam.txt > Here's another ver

Re: Words with embedded symbols

2012-10-05 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 5 Oct 2012, Cathryn Mataga wrote: Thanks for the comments. I'll see if I can cook something up here. Someone asked to see the actual messages. I collected 4 of these messages and put them at this link. http://www.mataga.net/mataga/spam.txt Most of those spams are ab-using free webhos

Re: Words with embedded symbols

2012-10-05 Thread Alexandre Boyer
Try my regex ( /[:;`(){}~#&"%$_][a-z][:;`(){}_~#&"%$]/im ) in a subject header check, and meta this with something like __HAS_ANY_URI and or SUBJ_ALL_CAPS. You may also want to upper your scoring for URIBL rules. And train your bayesian filter with those spam messages. BAEYS_00 means they are con

Re: Words with embedded symbols

2012-10-05 Thread Cathryn Mataga
Thanks for the comments. I'll see if I can cook something up here. Someone asked to see the actual messages. I collected 4 of these messages and put them at this link. http://www.mataga.net/mataga/spam.txt

Re: Words with embedded symbols

2012-10-05 Thread Alexandre Boyer
Hello, On 12-10-05 08:43 AM, Martin Gregorie wrote: > On Thu, 2012-10-04 at 20:56 -0700, Cathryn Mataga wrote: >> I'm getting a lot of SPAM with words written like this. These are pretty >> horrible, and I don't like >> getting them every day. >> >> A:N ;A %L" >> P:O ~R %N ( P &lCT U #R&E / >> >>

Re: Words with embedded symbols

2012-10-05 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Thu, 2012-10-04 at 20:56 -0700, Cathryn Mataga wrote: > I'm getting a lot of SPAM with words written like this. These are pretty > horrible, and I don't like > getting them every day. > > A:N ;A %L" > P:O ~R %N ( P &lCT U #R&E / > > Is there a way to make a rule for strings of characters that

Words with embedded symbols

2012-10-04 Thread Cathryn Mataga
I'm getting a lot of SPAM with words written like this. These are pretty horrible, and I don't like getting them every day. A:N ;A %L" P:O ~R %N ( P &lCT U #R&E / Is there a way to make a rule for strings of characters that would ignoring non-alpha characters embedded in the string?