[Mimedefang] OT:sa rule to catch ie exploit

2004-01-22 Thread Lucas Albers
Rule to detect IE exploit. Your mileage may vary. Will match these exploits: Replace ttp with http (so it will slip by my scanner and mcafee.) ttp://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/malicious.html ttp://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/malicious.html ttp://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/malicious.html ttp://[EMAIL PROTECTED] ttp://[EMAIL

RE: [Mimedefang] base64-encoded vbscript .hta file withself-extracting embeddedvirus

2004-01-22 Thread Lucas Albers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > About the only thing I can think of is to allow an option to quarantine > any > encrypted contents of an attached archive. I covered this item a few months ago, including how to detect encrypted files in uvscan. Virus's are similar to biological creatures, they need to

Re: [Mimedefang] base64-encoded vbscript .hta file withself-extra cting embeddedvirus

2004-01-22 Thread Royce Williams
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't have any real expectation that Clam would be able to recognize this in its JS-hta-wrapped form, now that I understand it -- but I am interested in the idea that anyone can repackage an existing Trojan in this way and slip by most scanners. -royce I have to d

RE: [Mimedefang] base64-encoded vbscript .hta file withself-extra cting embeddedvirus

2004-01-22 Thread David F. Skoll
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > Ah, you say - but if the .zip is encrypted, the user cannot open it either! > Well, maybe they can and maybe they can't. The message body could include > something like "Here's the pictures you wanted - the password to open the > attachment i

RE: [Mimedefang] base64-encoded vbscript .hta file withself-extra cting embeddedvirus

2004-01-22 Thread Matthew . van . Eerde
> I don't have any real expectation that Clam would be able to > recognize this in its JS-hta-wrapped form, now that I understand > it -- but I am interested in the idea that anyone can repackage an > existing Trojan in this way and slip by most scanners. > > -royce I have to disagree with "most"

[Mimedefang] File qurantine without sending report to final recipient...

2004-01-22 Thread Marian Stepka
Hi List; I have question: How I can qurantine file f.g. with dangerous extension and exit from function without sending notification to final recipient? I checked man page for mimedefanf-filter and found only function to qurantine file with sending message to final recipient. Marian -- Mari

Re: [Mimedefang] base64-encoded vbscript .hta file withself-extracting embeddedvirus

2004-01-22 Thread Royce Williams
Lucas Albers wrote: Royce Williams wrote: Our customer base got hit today with a virus that slipped through via some wily obfuscation that I hadn't seen before. What it does, in a nutshell, is a base64-encoded .hta file that has VBScript in it to convert a long string of hex into a binary, s

Re: [Fwd: RE: [Mimedefang] not catching test viruses]

2004-01-22 Thread Bill Maidment
Hi I'm using mimedefang-2.39 spamassassin-2.63 clamav-0.65 file-scan-0.79 and the following tests slip through 5, 17, 18, 19 and 20 Tests 8 and 22 get through, but the attachment gets dropped because of the extension. Cheers Bill Cormack, Ken wrote: The ones that slipped by for me were #17,#

Re: [Mimedefang] help upgrading mimedefang 2.33 -> 2.39

2004-01-22 Thread alan premselaar
On 1/23/04 4:29 AM, "Steven Ozoa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We've been using MIMEDefang 2.33 for several months now, with no problems. > > Now I'm trying to upgrade to 2.39. It compiles and installs without errors, > but when I start sendmail/mimedefang again I get the followin

[Mimedefang] foreign language spam slipping through

2004-01-22 Thread Douglas, Jason
Is there any known reason why a spam in a foreign language might get through without seeming to get scanned for spam (no spam headers added)? Jason Douglas Network Support Technician http://scopicmedia.ca/ http://scopicmedia.com/jasond/ ___ Visi

[Mimedefang] help upgrading mimedefang 2.33 -> 2.39

2004-01-22 Thread Steven Ozoa
We've been using MIMEDefang 2.33 for several months now, with no problems. Now I'm trying to upgrade to 2.39. It compiles and installs without errors, but when I start sendmail/mimedefang again I get the following errors in the log: Jan 21 15:11:48 mercury sendmail[27933]: [ID 702911 mail.info]

Re: [Mimedefang] Creating a universal signature at the bottom of every outboundemail

2004-01-22 Thread Lucas Albers
Alton Yu said: > Does someone have a template on how to do this? > > I think this should be in the FAQ. What do you guys think? > > Thanks! man mimedefang-filter. lists code to do it as append_html_boilerplate -- Luke Computer Science System Administrator Security Administrator,College of Engine

Re: [Mimedefang] base64-encoded vbscript .hta file withself-extracting embeddedvirus

2004-01-22 Thread Lucas Albers
> Royce Williams wrote: >> Our customer base got hit today with a virus that slipped through >> via some wily obfuscation that I hadn't seen before. What it does, >> in a nutshell, is a base64-encoded .hta file that has VBScript in it >> to convert a long string of hex into a binary, store it in y

Re: [Mimedefang] "No free slaves" vs. "Queueing request"

2004-01-22 Thread David F. Skoll
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Andrzej Marecki wrote: > Hmmm. Unavailability of free slaves may be transient. Don't you think > a possibility of making a retry could be of any good in this context? That's true, but if your server is overloaded, queueing won't help. > All in all, tempfailing - IMVHO - is s

Re: [Mimedefang] base64-encoded vbscript .hta file with self-extracting embeddedvirus

2004-01-22 Thread Kris Deugau
Royce Williams wrote: > Our customer base got hit today with a virus that slipped through > via some wily obfuscation that I hadn't seen before. What it does, > in a nutshell, is a base64-encoded .hta file that has VBScript in it > to convert a long string of hex into a binary, store it in your >

[Mimedefang] "No free slaves" vs. "Queueing request"

2004-01-22 Thread Andrzej Marecki
>> Why are there *much more* messages of this kind: >> mfconnect: No free slaves >> ... than messages like this: >> All slaves are busy: Queueing request (xx queued) >> ... in my syslog? > Because of the way queuing works. > When a *new* SMTP session is opened, if there are no free slaves, the >

Re: [Mimedefang] implementing spamass RBL checks in MD

2004-01-22 Thread Chris Myers
- Original Message - From: "Matt Cramer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 7:13 AM Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] implementing spamass RBL checks in MD > On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Lucas Albers wrote: > > > Matt Cramer said: > > > The SA RBL checks make qu

Re: [Mimedefang] "No free slaves" vs. "Queueing request"

2004-01-22 Thread David F. Skoll
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Andrzej Marecki wrote: > Why are there *much more* messages of this kind: > mfconnect: No free slaves > ... than messages like this: > All slaves are busy: Queueing request (xx queued) > ... in my syslog? Because of the way queuing works. When a *new* SMTP session is opened,

Re: [Mimedefang] Search link of MIMEDefang list

2004-01-22 Thread David F. Skoll
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Steffen Kaiser wrote: > could you please remove the JS-depend search link or re-add a plain one? A non-JS-required search is at http://www.roaringpenguin.com/search/ Regards, David. ___ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://w

[Mimedefang] Error running mimedefang

2004-01-22 Thread Fulano
Hi folks. I'm trying to use the clam Antivirus with mimedefang. I follow the instructions of http://sial.org/howto/mimedefang/clamav/ I configure the mimedefang-filter file like the how to says. The mimedefang.pl has identified the clamd installed on my system. This is my mailllog: -- Jan 21

[Mimedefang] "No free slaves" vs. "Queueing request"

2004-01-22 Thread Andrzej Marecki
This is something I always wanted to know (but was afraid to ask ;-). Why are there *much more* messages of this kind: mfconnect: No free slaves ... than messages like this: All slaves are busy: Queueing request (xx queued) ... in my syslog? A naive expectation is that every instance of "No f

[Mimedefang] Creating a universal signature at the bottom of every outbound email

2004-01-22 Thread Alton Yu
Does someone have a template on how to do this? I think this should be in the FAQ. What do you guys think? Thanks! ___ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mai

Re: [Mimedefang] implementing spamass RBL checks in MD

2004-01-22 Thread Matt Cramer
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Lucas Albers wrote: > Matt Cramer said: > > The SA RBL checks make quite a difference to the amount of spam I catch, > > so I wrote some code in my filter to perform the checks, score them the > > same as SA would (given both Bayes and networking enabled), and then > > modify

Re: [Mimedefang] mail server not issueing helo ro similar

2004-01-22 Thread Mattias Ahnberg
>> "LA" == Lucas Albers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: LA> I see this in my logs: LA> did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA The only time I've seen these messages is when being scanned by something or when testing. If you telnet to your mailservers port 25 and disconnect without

Re: [Mimedefang] Mail stats via rrdtool

2004-01-22 Thread Mattias Ahnberg
>> "FH" == Fredrik Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Be careful with $date stuff since it is easy to make them mismatch with the logs own formatting of times. I've stumbled over this kind of issues many times. Without actually testing I foresee your script generating false positives without havi

[Mimedefang] Message that bypasses virus scanning

2004-01-22 Thread Steffen Kaiser
Hello, Testees: mimedefang-2.39 and mimedefang-2.33, with MIME-tools-5.411a-RP-Patched-02 recently I found warnings in my logs about "Uninitialized values" of the output triplet of message_contains_virus_fprotd(). The reason is this code snippet in mimedefang.pl, function sub item_contains_virus

[Mimedefang] Search link of MIMEDefang list

2004-01-22 Thread Steffen Kaiser
Hallo David, could you please remove the JS-depend search link or re-add a plain one? Bye, -- Steffen Kaiser ___ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/