RE: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-16 Thread Anton Krall
Any SA rules out there that can catch the german spam mails? |-Original Message- |From: Bob Proulx [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Sent: Lunes, 16 de Mayo de 2005 12:00 a.m. |To: users@spamassassin.apache.org |Subject: Re: Bombarded by German political spam | |Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote: |> Thi

RE: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-16 Thread Randal, Phil
Yes, see here: http://weir.dattitu.de/archives/9-Filtering-Sober-P.html There's also info over at http://isc.sans.org/, where the abovve link was found. Cheers, Phil Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK > -Original Message- > From: Anton Krall [mailto

SpamAssassin 3.0 and test/check a .cf file ?

2005-05-16 Thread Phibee Network operation Center
Hi i am new into SPamAssassin and i want know if they have a tools for check a personnal .cf files for see if he don't have a error. Thanks for your help smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: SpamAssassin 3.0 and test/check a .cf file ?

2005-05-16 Thread Christoph Petersen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Phibee Network operation Center schrieb: > Hi > > i am new into SPamAssassin and i want know if they have a tools for check > a personnal .cf files for see if he don't have a error. > Try spamassassin -D --lint. It will check all of your config

RE: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-16 Thread Menno van Bennekom
Another CF file that might help you if you don't want to block it at the MTA-level: http://mailscanner.prolocation.net/german.cf Menno van Bennekom > Yes, see here: > > http://weir.dattitu.de/archives/9-Filtering-Sober-P.html > > There's also info over at http://isc.sans.org/, where the abovve li

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-16 Thread Martin Hepworth
Hi Phil So that's why the Sober's dried up last week. Gone from infection phase to 'spam zombie' phase. Great ;-( -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Randal, Phil wrote: Yes, see here: http://weir.dattitu.de/archives/9-Filtering-Sober-P.html

more obsfucated url tricks

2005-05-16 Thread Martin Hepworth
Hi all Using SA 3.0.3 with most of the SARE rules, pyzor, all the SURBL.org URI-RBLS etc etc along with a few extras. We got alot lof spam this weekend where the URL was interestingly obsfucated. here's an example or two.. http://gi-19.r6xmf38p75f2pm6mk57lfww7r.l-31.h-13.i-25.positionside.net/i

Re: SpamAssassin 3.0 and test/check a .cf file ?

2005-05-16 Thread Phibee Network operation Center
Thanks Christoph for your answer, i have see a big quantity of error into my .cf file ;=) goods i have resolved it .. In the debug, i have a information that i don't understand : = debug: plugin: Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::URIDN

when bayes gets poisened

2005-05-16 Thread Ronan McGlue
what to do when bayes shows signs of poisoning??? those germal political mails are being flagged at Bayes_00 scores even though they are still hitting 20+ points. this one only got 10ish 7.3 points, 5.0 required; 0.0 NO_REAL_NAME From: does not include a real name 0.2 INVALID_DATE

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-16 Thread Rob Skedgell
On Sunday 15 May 2005 17:51, List Mail User wrote: > >... > > > >wolfgang wrote: [...] > >> > >> I noticed that the WS URIBL does by now recognize various of the > >> URIs in those mails, and a rule like > >> # whois.rfc-ignorant.org URIBL http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/ > >> urirhssub URIBL_RFCI_WHOI

Re: Bayes problems and German Spam

2005-05-16 Thread Ronan McGlue
Simon Byrnand wrote: At 09:53 16/05/2005, Jo wrote: Simon Byrnand wrote: Hi All, After going from 2.64 to 3.0.3 I thought Bayes was working much better - previously certain classes of spam were being consistently reported as ham, scoring BAYES_00 no matter what I did, or how much manual training

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-16 Thread James R
David B Funk wrote: Tonight our site is being bombarded by German political spam or Joe-jobbed bounce fall-out. So far it appears to all be coming from trojaned PCs. Other than the specific URLs in the messages havn't found any easily identified parts to create rules for. anybody else seeing this?

Re: Help mp3 attachment

2005-05-16 Thread John Fleming
On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 22:34 -0500, John Fleming wrote: I run a very simple Postfix - Procmail - SpamAssassin - CLamAV setup that has been working great, but tonight I see something I don't understand. I suspect that your procmail recipe doesn't scan files over a certain size. What does your .procm

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-16 Thread Nick Leverton
On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 10:59:40PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > The list I have collected is slightly different than yours. > snips > Subject: Ihre Anfrage an Amazon.de "Your question to amazon.de" - are you sure that's a spam subject ? Nick

Re: Bayes problems and German Spam

2005-05-16 Thread Duncan Hill
On Monday 16 May 2005 12:15, Ronan McGlue typed: > I too have all net tests enabled and have started from a fresh clean new > database friday, and already Im seeing the german spams hit bayes_00... > I dont want to switch autolearning off becuase well i find it incredibly > usefull. i have spam/ha

Re: {Spam?} more obsfucated url tricks

2005-05-16 Thread Raymond Dijkxhoorn
Hi! Using SA 3.0.3 with most of the SARE rules, pyzor, all the SURBL.org URI-RBLS etc etc along with a few extras. We got alot lof spam this weekend where the URL was interestingly obsfucated. here's an example or two.. X-Prolocation-MailScanner-SpamCheck: spam, SpamAssassin (score=13.459, r

SARE / RDJ failing on both servers?

2005-05-16 Thread MIKE YRABEDRA
Anyone else seeing this today? Connecting to www.rulesemporium.com[67.67.32.207]:80... failed: Connection refused. Connecting to www.rulesemporium.com[209.218.125.117]:80... failed: Connection refused.

Relaying Server and sa-learn --spam

2005-05-16 Thread Phibee Network operation Center
Hi i use a Linux Server with Qmail/SpamAssassin 3.0.3/Qmail-Scanner-1.25st ... this server are the first mx contact, receive the email, scan it for AntiSpams and AntiVirus an sent the email to another qmail server on my network. On this server, i don't have mailbox ... i want know what is the pro

Detect size of bitmap

2005-05-16 Thread Steve
I keep getting emails that are sent in html and have a bmp that is about 94k with the offending products in bmp form. Its extreemly hard to detect these because I think its just a picture eg bmp not real words. When I click on the html picture and save it, the bmp size is always about 94k. I would

Re: SpamAssassin 3.0 and test/check a .cf file ?

2005-05-16 Thread Loren Wilton
config: SpamAssassin failed to parse line, skipping: rewrite_subject 1 config: SpamAssassin failed to parse line, skipping: report_header 1 config: SpamAssassin failed to parse line, skipping: use_terse_report 1 config: SpamAssassin failed to parse line, skipping: defang_mime 1 config: SpamAssassin

Re: when bayes gets poisened

2005-05-16 Thread Loren Wilton
> what to do when bayes shows signs of poisoning??? > those germal political mails are being flagged at Bayes_00 scores even > though they are still hitting 20+ points. Zap it and start over. Probably be working again in a few hours if you have reasonable mail flow. A personal site might take a

Re: when bayes gets poisened

2005-05-16 Thread Matt Kettler
At 06:36 AM 5/16/2005, Ronan McGlue wrote: what to do when bayes shows signs of poisoning??? those germal political mails are being flagged at Bayes_00 scores even though they are still hitting 20+ points. First, that's not really a sign of poisoning. Poisoning involves a deliberate attempt to ev

Re: {Spam?} more obsfucated url tricks

2005-05-16 Thread Martin Hepworth
Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote: Hi! Using SA 3.0.3 with most of the SARE rules, pyzor, all the SURBL.org URI-RBLS etc etc along with a few extras. We got alot lof spam this weekend where the URL was interestingly obsfucated. here's an example or two.. X-Prolocation-MailScanner-SpamCheck: spam, SpamAs

Re: Relaying Server and sa-learn --spam

2005-05-16 Thread Matt Kettler
At 08:35 AM 5/16/2005, Phibee Network operation Center wrote: 1- Create a email on my relay server and send with my mail software (in forward, i use thunderbird) to this mailbox for after start sa-learn ? but in forward, it's not a problems ? You cannot use a normal inline forward. You must prese

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-16 Thread Christian Recktenwald
On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 05:10:12PM +0200, Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote: > Hi! > > >>http://mailscanner.prolocation.net/german.cf > > >You've got a bit of duplication in there (rules 02 and 22 are the > >same, as are 04 and 26). > > I'll clean them, thanks! v0.2 there in a few :) http://www.citecs.d

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-16 Thread Elizabeth Schwartz
Does anyone have any good generic german spam filter rulesets? We have some legitimate German users, so I don't want to start blacklisting, and I worry that filtering one specific header at a time is a lost cause... thanks Betsy

Shouldn't this porn be flagged?

2005-05-16 Thread Pat Traynor
I've just switched to a new hosting provider who has installed a fairly standard Spamassassin for me. It seems like a lot of spam is getting through. I just looked at this one: Subject: Innocent Asian Babe Hairy Pussy Fucking X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16)

Re: SpamAssassin 3.0 and test/check a .cf file ?

2005-05-16 Thread Matt Kettler
Phibee Network operation Center wrote: > > Thanks Christoph for your answer, > > i have see a big quantity of error into my .cf file ;=) goods i have > resolved it .. > > In the debug, i have a information that i don't understand : > > ===

RE: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-16 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: wolfgang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 7:04 PM >To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: Re: Bombarded by German political spam > > >In an older episode (Monday 16 May 2005 00:17), List Mail User wrot

Re: when bayes gets poisened

2005-05-16 Thread Matt Kettler
Matt Kettler wrote: > At 06:36 AM 5/16/2005, Ronan McGlue wrote: > >> what to do when bayes shows signs of poisoning??? >> those germal political mails are being flagged at Bayes_00 scores even >> though they are still hitting 20+ points. > > > First, that's not really a sign of poisoning. Poiso

Re: Detect size of bitmap

2005-05-16 Thread Matt Kettler
Steve wrote: > I keep getting emails that are sent in html and have a bmp that is about 94k > with the offending products in bmp form. Its extreemly hard to detect these > because I think its just a picture eg bmp not real words. > > When I click on the html picture and save it, the bmp size is al

RE: SARE / RDJ failing on both servers?

2005-05-16 Thread Dallas L. Engelken
> > Anyone else seeing this today? > > Connecting to www.rulesemporium.com[67.67.32.207]:80... > failed: Connection refused. > Connecting to www.rulesemporium.com[209.218.125.117]:80... failed: > Connection refused. > The httpd.conf was invalid and logrotate hup'd httpd and caused it to shut d

Re: Detect size of bitmap

2005-05-16 Thread David Velásquez Restrepo
You can use "identify" command to obtain some info about an image. If you have linux (i hope you do), just type: identify [IMAGE_FILENAME] If you need the size of the file just type: ls -l [FILENAME] David A. Velásquez R. Gerente Fundador Conexiones Colombianas (CONEXCOL) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://w

Ruleset for the German spam

2005-05-16 Thread Bowie Bailey
This is a ruleset I created based on information from the Internet Storm Center (isc.sans.org). I scored it at 4 points. Feel free to raise or lower to your liking. Bowie Sober_German.cf Description: Binary data

Re: more obsfucated url tricks

2005-05-16 Thread List Mail User
>... > >Hi all > >Using SA 3.0.3 with most of the SARE rules, pyzor, all the SURBL.org >URI-RBLS etc etc along with a few extras. > >We got alot lof spam this weekend where the URL was interestingly >obsfucated. here's an example or two.. > > >href=http://gi-19.r6xmf38p75f2pm6mk57lfww7r.l-31.h-13

Re: Strange SA report maths.

2005-05-16 Thread Matt Kettler
Craig McLean wrote: > Can you be more specific? A search of wiki.apache.org/spamassassin shows > 2 pages containing "rounding": > StatusRounding - orphaned. > RoundingIssues - this is not the issue I'm talking about, and in any > case was fixed in 3.0. Actually if you read: http://wiki.apache.org

Re: Don't see BAYES in headers

2005-05-16 Thread Matt Kettler
ÐÐÐ ÐÐÑÐ wrote: > I'm using SpamAssassin 3.0.3 with amavisd and mysql. > I've learned it for 900 ham messages and 1000 spam messages this way for > each user: > > /usr/local/bin/sa-learn -u [EMAIL PROTECTED] --ham > /home/cyrus/spool/domain/domain.ru/user/igor/NoSpam > > /usr/local/bin/s

Re: Relaying Server and sa-learn --spam

2005-05-16 Thread James R
Matt Kettler wrote: At 08:35 AM 5/16/2005, Phibee Network operation Center wrote: 1- Create a email on my relay server and send with my mail software (in forward, i use thunderbird) to this mailbox for after start sa-learn ? but in forward, it's not a problems ? You cannot use a normal inline fo

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-16 Thread wolfgang
In an older episode (Monday 16 May 2005 03:23), Jeff Chan wrote: > > i started listing such publishers today: > > > uridnsbl_skip_domain*.berlinonline.de > > uridnsbl_skip_domainberlinonline.de > > uridnsbl_skip_domain*.heise.de > > uridnsbl_skip_domainheise.de > > uridnsbl_skip_d

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-16 Thread Maurice Lucas
Hello, I didn't read this discussion but did found a link on the clamav mailinglist which I want to share before reading 300 emails ;) http://weir.dattitu.de/archives/9-Filtering-Sober-P.html Met vriendelijke groet, Maurice Lucas TAOS-IT - Original Message - From: "Christian Recktenwald"

RE: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-16 Thread Anton Krall
Thx! |-Original Message- |From: Randal, Phil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Sent: Lunes, 16 de Mayo de 2005 03:56 a.m. |To: Anton Krall; users@spamassassin.apache.org |Subject: RE: Bombarded by German political spam | |Yes, see here: | |http://weir.dattitu.de/archives/9-Filtering-Sober-P.htm

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-16 Thread wolfgang
In an older episode (Monday 16 May 2005 16:53), Elizabeth Schwartz wrote: > Does anyone have any good generic german spam filter rulesets? > We have > some legitimate German users, so I don't want to start blacklisting, > and I worry that filtering one specific header at a time is a lost > cause..

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-16 Thread Elizabeth Schwartz
Thanks, just put it in! > http://www.citecs.de/99_sober.cf > - the often seen "Lese selbst" is scored 4 Just curious, what's that mean to the spammers? google translates it as "vintage"

Re: pyzor_options

2005-05-16 Thread Matías López Bergero
Christoph Petersen wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get the following command to work: pyzor_options --homedir=/var/qmail/vpopmail/.spamassassin in local.cf. But everytime when I start spamassassin --lint -D I get the following error: config: SpamAssassin failed to parse line, --homedir=/var/qmail/vpopmail

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-16 Thread Matias Lopez Bergero
David B Funk wrote: Tonight our site is being bombarded by German political spam or Joe-jobbed bounce fall-out. So far it appears to all be coming from trojaned PCs. Other than the specific URLs in the messages havn't found any easily identified parts to create rules for. anybody else seeing this?

RE: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-16 Thread Pierre Thomson
Betsy, This particular spam blast uses just 30 particular subject lines, with no variations, so the provided rule sets work great without generating false positives. Bayes, of course, is insensitive to language and will soon learn to differentiate German ham from German spam. And some of the

Re: SARE / RDJ failing on both servers?

2005-05-16 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Mon 16 May 05 05:22, MIKE YRABEDRA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone else seeing this today? > > Connecting to www.rulesemporium.com[67.67.32.207]:80... failed: > Connection refused. > Connecting to www.rulesemporium.com[209.218.125.117]:80... failed: > Connection refused. Please do not hijac

Re: Shouldn't this porn be flagged?

2005-05-16 Thread Matt Kettler
Pat Traynor wrote: > > This seems like a lot of relatively standard porn terms that haven't > been recognized. Is this normal? Do I have to add my own rules to > catch this sort of stuff? > > --pat-- Normally bayes and URIBLs deal with this stuff, but it looks like your ISP isn't using bayes,

German political spam

2005-05-16 Thread Thomas Deaton
I've got some rules in place (thank you guys!) that blocks a lot of this spam, but now my director is getting emails on her blackberry with bogus "TO" addresses that doesn't seem to be going thru SpamAssassin. Any ideas? E-mail correspondence to and from this address may be subject to the Nor

CPAN install of 3.0.3 fails in "make test"

2005-05-16 Thread Parker Morse
I'm doing the upgrade to 3.03 through CPAN. I shut down spamd for the install process. I dutifully fill in the report address, then put in to skip network, Bayes, and AWL tests during "make test." I get a warning for an old version of Razor2 (2.34, not 2.4) and then everything runs fine until "

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-16 Thread Jon Trulson
On Sun, 15 May 2005, David B Funk wrote: Tonight our site is being bombarded by German political spam or Joe-jobbed bounce fall-out. So far it appears to all be coming from trojaned PCs. Other than the specific URLs in the messages havn't found any easily identified parts to create rules for. anybo

Header rewrite rule doesn't work

2005-05-16 Thread Saurabh Barve
Hi, I'm having problems with SpamAssassin-3.0.3 on a Fedora Core 2 machine along with Sendmail. SpamAssassin is able to identify mail as spam, and adds its headers to the mail. However, it does not rewrite the subject header with the `[SPAM]' tag. Here's what I have in local.cf: ---

Header rewrite rule doesn't work

2005-05-16 Thread Saurabh Barve
Hi, I'm having problems with SpamAssassin-3.0.3 on a Fedora Core 2 machine along with Sendmail. SpamAssassin is able to identify mail as spam, and adds its headers to the mail. However, it does not rewrite the subject header with the `[SPAM]' tag. Here's what I have in local.cf: ---

Re: more spam with SpamAssassin version 3.0.2

2005-05-16 Thread Jon Trulson
On Sat, 14 May 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think 3.0.2 is worse, just that there's more spam around lately. If I take my own stats, SA is catching a slightly higher percentage of spam in the last month to 6 weeks. The RBL's I use frontline are catching more too. From January 05 to March 0

spamd stuck, running high load for lond time

2005-05-16 Thread Quinn Comendant
Well, I've got to ask you. Would spamd (spamassassin 3.0.2 on RHL 7.2/sendmail) ever be the cause of message delivery delays of a few hours? The suspect emails arrive very delayed and without X-Spam headers. Sometimes I find spamd running at 99% CPU for long periods (possibly stuck on processing o

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-16 Thread Eddy Beliveau
Many thanks for this rule (99_sober.cf) It rocks :-) Thanks again Eddy - Original Message - Subject: Re: Bombarded by German political spam On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 05:10:12PM +0200, Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote: Hi! >>http://mailscanner.prolocation.net/german.cf >You've got a bit of duplic

RE: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-16 Thread hamann . w
>> >> >> >-Original Message- >> >From: wolfgang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 7:04 PM >> >To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >> >Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org >> >Subject: Re: Bombarded by German political spam >> > >> > >> >In an older episode (Monday 16 May

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-16 Thread sargon
On Monday, 16-May-2005 09:53, Elizabeth Schwartz wrote: > Does anyone have any good generic german spam filter rulesets? We > have some legitimate German users, so I don't want to start > blacklisting, and I worry that filtering one specific header at a > time is a lost cause... This link showed u

German Spam followup

2005-05-16 Thread Elizabeth Schwartz
Thanks for all the pointers to the cf files for this particular virus. We have one installed and it is working fine - for this time. Since I have legitimate users communicating all over the world, I am very interested in other rulesets that would block spam in languages besides English. Not sure