I would not say useless, It is just these new SPAM campaigns are high volume and short. By the time I have people give me a message to research Sniffer and the other tests are blocking that campaign, but a lot get through before they are detected.
I will say that my system was rather out of date as far as the versions of Declude, Sniffer, Filters, and such. A couple of days ago I got some help and we updated everything in Declude and Smartermail. After the update I will say that some spam still gets through, but it is a lot better than it was. From: Carl Wagar Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 11:41 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [MBF] increasingly useless Has anyone found that in the last two months that there are an awful lot of spams getting through the filters – that sniffer is not detecting and none of the black lists are flagging it. It’s all subtle health conditions or newsy political issues etc that contain a bogus sender names that are similar to the subject and isn’t getting filtered. Or if it is, it is only mid-level ‘subject’ weights instead of ‘hold’ weights. It just seems that the spammers are at a whole new level. I am daily having to manually add new keywords and phrases to my spam and scam filters. It’s not that the level of spam has increased but that a certain segment of spam is completely undetected and if I didn’t keep ahead of it, the perception would be that the filters are degrading badly. Is there a place we can forward these to help someone or anyone improve things? Comments? Thanks. Carl J. Carl Wagar EntreNet Communications Inc www.entrenet.com www.thehostingservice.com 24 Swain Ave, Ottawa, ON, K1G 4T1, Canada Email: [email protected], skype: jcwagar Tel: +1 613-737-7327, Fax: +1 613-737-5801 Cel: +1 613-818-8898
