Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-21 Thread List
- Original Message - From: Raymond Dijkxhoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wolfgang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 9:31 PM Subject: Re: Bombarded by German political spam Hi! it uses a score of 8 and /i - anyway, it might save you some

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-21 Thread Vinayak Royadu
On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 14:09, List wrote: - Original Message - From: Raymond Dijkxhoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wolfgang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 9:31 PM Subject: Re: Bombarded by German political spam Hi! it uses a score

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-21 Thread Loren Wilton
Do i copy and paste the contents of german.cf into my local.cf or just download the german.cf into /etc/mail/spamassassin ? Either one. SA will load all files ending in *.cf in alphabetical order by file name. Simplest to just drop the new file into the directory. Remember to restart spamd,

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-18 Thread Bill Maidment
Jeff Chan wrote: IIRC Sober P advertised free World Cup tickets or something like that. That would tend to get people to open the virus spams in Europe, but probably wouldn't mean sh!t here in the U.S. where probably fewer than 1 in 10 people has any idea what a World Cup is. Superbowl they've

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-18 Thread jdow
From: Bill Maidment [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jeff Chan wrote: IIRC Sober P advertised free World Cup tickets or something like that. That would tend to get people to open the virus spams in Europe, but probably wouldn't mean sh!t here in the U.S. where probably fewer than 1 in 10 people has

RE: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-18 Thread Rick Cooper
-Original Message- From: Jeff Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 6:17 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Bombarded by German political spam On Tuesday, May 17, 2005, 3:42:09 PM, David Funk wrote: So the intensity of the spam bombing

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-18 Thread Stuart Johnston
Jeff Chan wrote: On Tuesday, May 17, 2005, 3:42:09 PM, David Funk wrote: So the intensity of the spam bombing is inversely proportional to the local computer community 'clue level'. This tends to indicate that there are more clue-less American windows llusers than there are German. No surprise

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-18 Thread jdow
From: Rick Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Jeff Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tuesday, May 17, 2005, 3:42:09 PM, David Funk wrote: So the intensity of the spam bombing is inversely proportional to the local computer community 'clue level'. This tends to

RE: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-17 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 2005 00:17), List Mail User

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-17 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 up

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-17 Thread Tim B
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

2005-05-17 Thread Christian Recktenwald
On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 02:05:09PM -0400, Elizabeth Schwartz wrote: 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 It means read by yourself. --

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-17 Thread List Mail User
... ... whitelist at surbl dot org Jeff, thanks for the submission address, i'll send a Bcc there and also post the list below to uribl's submission form. frankly, i find it too much effort to check if they are blacklisted, so i will just list some more german domains that i consider worth

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-17 Thread hamann . w
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 Never trust automatic translators it is rather read yourself Wolfgang Hamann

RE: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-17 Thread Kayne Kruse
From: Elizabeth Schwartz Thanks, just put it in! http://www.citecs.de/99_sober.cf Do you see the following problems with this Ruleset? If I move the 99_sober.cf, it lint runs w/o error. debug: URIDNSBL: domains to query: debug: Running tests for priority: 0 debug: running header

RE: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-17 Thread Randal, Phil
wolfgang wrote: there is one online that is based on the typical message-ids used by that current virus based spam wave and on a few additonal indicators from those mails. i find it a bit risky - anyway, here is the URL: http://weir.dattitu.de/archives/9-Filtering-Sober-P.html regards,

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-17 Thread Christian Recktenwald
On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 09:37:26AM -0500, Kayne Kruse wrote: From: Elizabeth Schwartz Thanks, just put it in! http://www.citecs.de/99_sober.cf Do you see the following problems with this Ruleset? If I move the 99_sober.cf, it lint runs w/o error. I linted it right now. Can't

RE: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-17 Thread Randal, Phil
Tim B wrote: 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.

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-17 Thread Matt
Does anyone know the logic behind this spam bombing? I have a friend who has a gmx.de account and he has gotten 0 german spam in it... yet here in the u.s. we are getting bombarded by the spam.

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Anton Krall wrote: Any SA rules out there that can catch the german spam mails? I am only needing to filter on the subjects I quoted because Mailman has no other option and the mailing list is not using spamassassin. Simply filtering on the subject is not a great method. But since I am stuck

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-17 Thread Alan Premselaar
Matias Lopez Bergero wrote: 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

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-17 Thread Loren Wilton
Did this suddendly stop today for anyone else and now your just dealing with the NDR's? Actually it suddenly *started* for me today. Before that only one stupid zombie somplace thought I was in Germany. Now they all seem to. And the faked sender names all start with the letter J.

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-17 Thread Simon Byrnand
Does anyone know the logic behind this spam bombing? I have a friend who has a gmx.de account and he has gotten 0 german spam in it... yet here in the u.s. we are getting bombarded by the spam. There is logic behind spamming ? News to me ;-) Personally I think it's incredibly arrogant of

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

RE: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-16 Thread Randal, Phil
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 May 2005 09:40 To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: Bombarded by German political spam 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

RE: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-16 Thread Menno van Bennekom
was found. Cheers, Phil Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: Anton Krall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 May 2005 09:40 To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: Bombarded by German political spam Any SA rules

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-16 Thread Martin Hepworth
Subject: RE: Bombarded by German political spam 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

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_WHOIS

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: 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: 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 :)

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

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 wrote

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_domain

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-16 Thread Maurice Lucas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Raymond Dijkxhoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Bart Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED]; users@spamassassin.apache.org Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 4:11 PM Subject: Re: Bombarded by German political spam On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 05:10:12PM +0200, Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote: Hi! http

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

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: 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
-Original Message- From: Elizabeth Schwartz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 10:54 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Bombarded by German political spam Does anyone have any good generic german spam filter rulesets? We have some legitimate German users, so I don't

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.

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

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-15 Thread Raymond Dijkxhoorn
Hi! 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? Actually it was

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-15 Thread Loren Wilton
Anyone has a full list of subjects yet, time to do some SA magic... ;) I only have one, and you might be better off looking for the urls than the subject: Subject: 4,8 Mill. Osteuropaeer durch Fischer-Volmer Erlass Lese selbst: http://www.npd.de/npd_info/deutschland/2005/d0405-13.html Neue

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-15 Thread hamann . w
Anyone has a full list of subjects yet, time to do some SA magic... ;) I only have one, and you might be better off looking for the urls than the subject: Subject: 4,8 Mill. Osteuropaeer durch Fischer-Volmer Erlass Lese selbst: http://www.npd.de/npd_info/deutschland/2005/d0405-13.html

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-15 Thread Loren Wilton
I only have one, and you might be better off looking for the urls than the subject: Ok, now I have two. Both from the same machine as it happens, although this time it claims it is an AOL mail server. Last time it was somethiing else. Yea, right. Subject: Paranoider Deutschenmoerder kommt in

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-15 Thread wolfgang
In an older episode (Sunday 15 May 2005 10:47), Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote: Anyone has a full list of subjects yet, time to do some SA magic... ;) I have quite a few, here is the subjects list: Subject: 4,8 Mill. Osteuropaeer durch Fischer-Volmer Erlass Subject: Auf Streife durch den Berliner

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-15 Thread wolfgang
In an older episode (Sunday 15 May 2005 11:55), wolfgang wrote: oops, this one: Subject: DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA is not part of them ;) regards, wolfgang

RE: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-15 Thread martin smith
M-Original Message- MFrom: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] MSent: 15 May 2005 10:46 MTo: users@spamassassin.apache.org MCc: Loren Wilton MSubject: Re: Bombarded by German political spam M Mnpd.de is Nazi political party M M M Kanzler erleichtert Visaverfahren für Golfstaaten

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-15 Thread Roman Serbski
On 5/15/05, David B Funk [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-15 Thread Raymond Dijkxhoorn
Hi! Anyone has a full list of subjects yet, time to do some SA magic... ;) I have quite a few, here is the subjects list: Subject: 4,8 Mill. Osteuropaeer durch Fischer-Volmer Erlass Subject: Auf Streife durch den Berliner Wedding Subject: Auslaender bevorzugt Subject: Auslaenderpolitik Subject:

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-15 Thread wolfgang
In an older episode (Sunday 15 May 2005 12:44), Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote: Hi! Anyone has a full list of subjects yet, time to do some SA magic... ;) I have quite a few, here is the subjects list: Subject: 4,8 Mill. Osteuropaeer durch Fischer-Volmer Erlass Subject: Auf Streife durch

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-15 Thread Raymond Dijkxhoorn
Hi! I have quite a few, here is the subjects list: Subject: 4,8 Mill. Osteuropaeer durch Fischer-Volmer Erlass Subject: Auf Streife durch den Berliner Wedding Subject: Auslaender bevorzugt Subject: Auslaenderpolitik cut This is the complete list so far: Subject: 4,8 Mill. Osteuropaeer durch

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-15 Thread Alex Broens
wolfgang wrote: In an older episode (Sunday 15 May 2005 12:44), Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote: Hi! Anyone has a full list of subjects yet, time to do some SA magic... ;) I have quite a few, here is the subjects list: Subject: 4,8 Mill. Osteuropaeer durch Fischer-Volmer Erlass Subject: Auf Streife

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-15 Thread Patrick von der Hagen
Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote: [...] This is the complete list so far: [...] Subject: Multi-Kulturell = Multi-Kriminell -- CU, Patrick.

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-15 Thread wolfgang
In an older episode (Sunday 15 May 2005 12:44), Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote: Hi! Anyone has a full list of subjects yet, time to do some SA magic... ;) I have quite a few, here is the subjects list: Subject: 4,8 Mill. Osteuropaeer durch Fischer-Volmer Erlass Subject: Auf Streife durch

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-15 Thread Raymond Dijkxhoorn
Hi! Subject: Vorbildliche Aktion Subject: 60 Jahre Befreiung: Wer feiert mit? anyone care to make a small ruleset to score them up? someone posted one at http://www.file-upload.net/15.05.05/5_x4st.cf it uses a score of 8 and /i - anyway, it might save you some effort ;) Just finished my ruleset

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-15 Thread Raymond Dijkxhoorn
Hi! it uses a score of 8 and /i - anyway, it might save you some effort ;) Just finished my ruleset also... grin. the one there has 27 so its missing 5. I also dont uinderstand why it used the meta tags in that one... Its combining nothing in fact... strange. I put my one online also:

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-15 Thread Bart Schaefer
On 5/15/05, Raymond Dijkxhoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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).

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-15 Thread Raymond Dijkxhoorn
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 :) Bye, Raymond.

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-15 Thread Steven Stern
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

2005-05-15 Thread Chr. von Stuckrad
On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 10:59:12AM -0500, Steven Stern wrote: I received about 500 on the webmaster account. Now we know what sober was all about. I see *no* connection to any Virus or Trojan! I got about 200 of them into a few accounts and seemingly I'm receiving more every few minutes.

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-15 Thread Niek
On 5/15/2005 6:19 PM +0200, Chr. von Stuckrad wrote: Now we know what sober was all about. I see *no* connection to any Virus or Trojan! Oh, there is a connection. Just like last years sober.g and a German extermist spamrun. This spamrun was caused by sober.q which was downloaded by sober.p Niek

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-15 Thread Adam Osterholt
I think the connection is that the infected machines are sending out this political spam and not that they are sending the actual virus. Adam "Chr. von Stuckrad" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/15/2005 12:19:39 On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 10:59:12AM -0500, Steven Stern wrote: I received about 500 on the

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-15 Thread Niek
On 5/15/2005 6:19 PM +0200, Chr. von Stuckrad wrote: Now we know what sober was all about. I see *no* connection to any Virus or Trojan! Also see: http://isc.sans.org/ http://www.viruslist.com/en/weblog Niek

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-15 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
On Sun, 15 May 2005 18:19:39 +0200 Chr. von Stuckrad wrote: On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 10:59:12AM -0500, Steven Stern wrote: I received about 500 on the webmaster account. Now we know what sober was all about. I see *no* connection to any Virus or Trojan! [SNIP...] No attachments seem

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-15 Thread List Mail User
... wolfgang wrote: In an older episode (Sunday 15 May 2005 12:44), Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote: Hi! Anyone has a full list of subjects yet, time to do some SA magic... ;) I have quite a few, here is the subjects list: Subject: 4,8 Mill. Osteuropaeer durch Fischer-Volmer Erlass Subject: Auf

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-15 Thread wolfgang
In an older episode (Sunday 15 May 2005 18:51), List Mail User wrote: # whois.rfc-ignorant.org URIBL http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/ urirhssub URIBL_RFCI_WHOIS whois.rfc-ignorant.org. A 5 body URIBL_RFCI_WHOIS eval:check_uridnsbl('URIBL_RFCI_WHOIS') describe

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-15 Thread hamann . w
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

2005-05-15 Thread JamesDR
Gerald V. Livingston II wrote: On Sun, 15 May 2005 18:19:39 +0200 Chr. von Stuckrad wrote: On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 10:59:12AM -0500, Steven Stern wrote: I received about 500 on the webmaster account. Now we know what sober was all about. I see *no* connection to any Virus or Trojan! [SNIP...]

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-15 Thread List Mail User
... 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

2005-05-15 Thread wolfgang
In an older episode (Monday 16 May 2005 00:17), List Mail User wrote: JeffC of SURBL and ChrisS of URIBL) would be extremely grateful if you could prepare a preliminary whitelist for them, just to avoid the exact case you have mentioned - Legitimate news sources/agencies/publishers getting

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-15 Thread List Mail User
Wolfgang, On a related note; Having just seen the first such email at my site (it wasn't delivered), I'm assuming the the npd. de is the actual political party itself? If so, their paper work is squeaky clean, even the name servers' domains are clean; The best I could do was

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-15 Thread Jeff Chan
On Sunday, May 15, 2005, 4:04:09 PM, wolfgang wolfgang wrote: In an older episode (Monday 16 May 2005 00:17), List Mail User wrote: JeffC of SURBL and ChrisS of URIBL) would be extremely grateful if you could prepare a preliminary whitelist for them, just to avoid the exact case you have

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-15 Thread Tim B
Chr. von Stuckrad wrote: On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 10:59:12AM -0500, Steven Stern wrote: I received about 500 on the webmaster account. Now we know what sober was all about. I see *no* connection to any Virus or Trojan! I got about 200 of them into a few accounts and seemingly I'm receiving more

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote: This is the complete list so far: I am helping to manage a mailing list with mailman and the interface there is pretty restrictive and there is no spam filtering such as SA under it so no SURBL either. Slightly off topic for the SA list. But I found in the interface

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-14 Thread Loren Wilton
anybody else seeing this? I got one of them, and fortunately only one. Bayes did a good job of catching it. Loren