RE: GIF stock spams

2006-02-24 Thread Shawn R. Beairsto
I'm getting hammered by these as well, usually scoring below 2 points. I'm running most of the standard SARE rules (including SARE_STOCKS). Any advice? Bayes training has (so far) been ineffective. -Shawn -Original Message- From: Chris Conn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, Februa

RE: User getting spammed to death

2006-02-13 Thread Shawn R. Beairsto
I had this problem a couple years back with our education email address. While the account got moderate levels of spam, it was absolutely inundated with virus backscatter. After a few months of trying to block the majority of it, we deemed the effort futile and abandoned the address. It was a nu

MISSING_SUBJECT always firing

2005-05-26 Thread Shawn R. Beairsto
Hi everyone, I'm running SA 3.02 for a few weeks now together with amavisd-new-20030616 and it seems that MISSING_SUBJECT is firing on every mail even if there is a Subject: header and it's not empty. Has anyone experienced this problem or have an idea whats going on? I've googled around some,

RE: Porn E-Mail

2005-02-28 Thread Shawn R. Beairsto
If you are running the 70_SARE_HTML1.CF file, increase the value of SARE_HTML_A_HIDE in your local.cf... this spammer always hits this rule. I've been doing this for several months now, with no false positives. I've set mine to 3 points (5 required). HTH, Shawn -Original Message- From

F.P. with SARE rule

2004-12-17 Thread Shawn R. Beairsto
Good morning everyone,   I just got a F.P. using one of the SARE rulesets, looks like the SARE_SUB_PENIS_OB rule might need some tweaking. Seems like it fired from the word pennies:   Content preview:  Pennies From Heaven The Daily Reckoning [...]   Content analysis details:   (7.9 p

RE: Problems with SURBL and catching stuff..

2004-11-03 Thread Shawn R. Beairsto
Hi Matt, I've mentioned this before as well. This spammer is really good at not hitting most of the stock rules. We get hit with about a dozen of them before the SURBL's catch on. To catch them all the time, make sure you are using 70_sare_html1.cf from rulesemporium.com. Add to your local.cf

RE: spam slippin through

2004-10-12 Thread Shawn R. Beairsto
If its the spam I think it is, I stopped it by using the SARE_70_HTML1.CF file and adding this to my local.cf score SARE_HTML_A_HIDE 5.0 They always hit this rule ;) Shawn -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 12:26

RE: Those sneaky porno spammers

2004-09-03 Thread Shawn R. Beairsto
I've been being hit by this type of spam quite hard lately, but finally found a way to stop it. Make sure you are running the SARE html and adult rulesets. Then add to your local CF: score SARE_HTML_URI_NODOT2 2.0 score SARE_HTML_A_HIDEtst2 4.0 This spammer's emails ALWAYS hit these 2 rule