[sniffer] MXScan for MailEnable

2008-03-07 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Sniffer Folks,

For those of you considering MailEnable, MX Uptime (www.mxuptime.com)
has an anti-spam plugin that includes a fully integrated SNFEngine
(the new version!).

Just put in your login code and authentication string and you're good
to go. Here's a screen shot link: http://www.mxuptime.com/screenshots/3b.jpg

If you try this out please post a note to let us all know how it works
for you.

Thanks!

_M

-- 
Pete McNeil
Chief Scientist,
Arm Research Labs, LLC.


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[sniffer] Version 2-9rc1.8.2 Release Candidate (Std Test Package), and other plans/announcements!...

2008-03-07 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Sniffer Folks,

Today I'm releasing the first release candidate for what will become
version 3 this quarter!

You can find the latest here as it arrives:

http://kb.armresearch.com/index.php?title=Message_Sniffer.GettingStarted.Distributions#NEW_SNF_V2-9_Wide_Beta

Over the next few days we will be updating the MDaemon DLL with the
new engine and a new feature or two.

Then we will update the source distribution for *nix & OEM systems.

Then we will be launching two SDKs -- one is a .SO for *nix systems
and the other is a DLL for Win* systems.

Along the way we will be launching a new web site with documentation
for the new version.

Then later this year (Q2 - Q3 perhaps) we'll be launching DNS based IP
reputation services.

For now -- back to this moment in time and the new SNFServer and
SNFClient release. There are extensive updates to both the client and
server programs. Be sure to go through the readme files if you are
upgrading.

Also - if you are upgrading you will want to update your
snf_engine.xml file to cover the new features. (GHASP! What if I
forget to do that?!!) -- If you don't get to it right away then your
existing snf_engine.xml file will work fine... but do get the update
process on your to-do list so you can take advantage of the new
features and improved default settings.

Here is a chunk of the change log to show you what is new since verion
2-9b1.5.1:

20080306 - SNF2-9rc1.8.exe (FIRST RELEASE CANDIDATE for VERSION 3!)

Added Drilldown Header Directive Functions - When the candidate source IP
comes from a header matching a drilldown directive the IP is marked "Ignore"
in GBUdb and the candidate is no longer eligible to be the source for that
message. This allows SNF to follow the trusted chain of devices (by IP) down
to the actual source of the message. It is handy for ignoring net blocks
because it can match partial IPs but it is designed to allow SNF to learn
it's way through the servers at large ISPs so that the original source for
each message can be evaluated directly.

Added Source Header Directive Functions - This feature allows SNF to
acquire the source IP for a message from a specific header rather than
searching through the Received headers in the message. This is useful
when the original source for a message is not represented in Received
headers. For example: Hotmail places the originating source IP in a
special header and does not provide a Received header for that IP.
This feature is protected from abuse by a "Context" feature which only
activates the source header directive when specific content is found
in a specific received header. Using the above example, this feature
can be configured so that a Hotmail source header would only be read
if the top Received header contained "hotmail.com [" indicating that
the ptr lookup for the header matched the hotmail domain. Note: When a
source is pulled from a header directive that source is put into a
synthetic Received header and injected into the scanning stream (not
the message) as the first Received header.

Added forced source IP to XCI - It is now possible to "inject" or "force"
the source IP for any message by providing that IP in the XCI request or
directly in a scan...() function call. This allows the calling application
to provide the source IP for a message ahead of any Received headers that
might be in the message. This is useful when the calling application knows
the original source IP for the message but that IP is not represented in
the Received headers and it is not desireable to use the Source Header
Directive mechanism.

Added forced source IP mode to SNFClient - It is now possible to call the
SNFClient utility with an IP4Address using the syntax:

SNFClient -source=12.34.56.78

The -source mode of SNFClient exercises the forced source IP feature in
the XCI (see above)

Added Status Report features to SNFClient and XCI - It is now possible to
request the latest status.second, status.minute, or status.hour data via
the XCI and SNFClient. The syntax for requesting a status report using the
SNFClient is:

SNFClient -status.second
SNFClient -status.minute
SNFClient -status.hour

In addition to providing status reports the SNFClient in this mode will
return a nonzero value (usually 99) if it is unable to get a status report
from SNFServer. This feature can be used to verify that SNFServer is up
and responding. If SNFServer is OK then the result code returned is 0.

Added result codes to SNFClient -test and XCI IP test functions - The XCI
engine has been upgraded to provide the range value for the IP under test
as well as the symbolic result code associated with that range. This allows
the -test function to provide results that are consistent with the GBUdb
configuration without additional processing: For example, if the IP falls
in the Caution range then the Caution result code will be returned just
as if a message had been scanned with the same IP and no pattern match
occurred. The same is true for Truncate a

[sniffer] Re: Version 2-9rc1.8.2 Release Candidate (Std Test Package), and other plans/announcements!...

2008-03-07 Thread Shawn Park
Pete,
Great new features.  I can't wait to get this installed.

Thanks for the hard work.

Shawn


On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Pete McNeil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> Today I'm releasing the first release candidate for what will become
> version 3 this quarter!
>