Re: russian spam with only two lines in the body

2010-08-27 Thread Martin Gregorie
> Thus, based on my own observations, it looks like the value of rules in > this particular area is going to be in scoring stuff that arrives before > the domains show up in the various SURBLs. > Quite possibly, though it seems to have been selectively targeted to some extent: at least it doesn'

Re: russian spam with only two lines in the body

2010-08-27 Thread NFN Smith
Martin Gregorie wrote: Alternatively, using a meta rule that combines the above pattern as a sub-rule with two like this: /[a-z]{7,8}[0-9]{4}/ that match against From: and Reply-To: headers would appear to be fairly specific and worthy of a big score, but of course you'll have spotted that a

Re: russian spam with only two lines in the body

2010-08-25 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 21:31 +0100, Martin Gregorie wrote: > On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 21:16 +0200, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > > http://pastebin.com/JAEuCSnC > > > Uhm, that's not typical spam. It's actually forum / blog comment spam, > > helpfully and automatically converted to a mail. > > Sure, bu

Re: russian spam with only two lines in the body

2010-08-25 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 21:16 +0200, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > http://pastebin.com/JAEuCSnC > Uhm, that's not typical spam. It's actually forum / blog comment spam, > helpfully and automatically converted to a mail. > Sure, but its off topic and, however ineptly, its certainly advertising. That m

Re: russian spam with only two lines in the body

2010-08-25 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 01:06 +0300, Ibrahim Harrani wrote: > Recently, I am getting russian spam like at > http://pastebin.com/Yf3AusJ4 > > All of their characteristic is that there are two line in the body. > First is a sentence, second is url ending with .ru/ Hmm, I don't seem to have any proble

Re: russian spam with only two lines in the body

2010-08-25 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 19:56 +0100, Martin Gregorie wrote: > > > BTW, I'm now starting to see spam that doesn't contain any URIs or other > > > ways of identifying a source for the goods being advertised. So far its > > > been for examination aids and footware and has all been sent via a > > > maili

Re: russian spam with only two lines in the body

2010-08-25 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 20:04 +0200, Benny Pedersen wrote: > On ons 25 aug 2010 13:37:57 CEST, Martin Gregorie wrote > > BTW, I'm now starting to see spam that doesn't contain any URIs or other > > ways of identifying a source for the goods being advertised. So far its > > been for examination aids a

Re: russian spam with only two lines in the body

2010-08-25 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 14:29 +1200, Jason Haar wrote: > On 08/25/2010 10:06 AM, Ibrahim Harrani wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Recently, I am getting russian spam like at http://pastebin.com/Yf3AusJ4 > > > > All of their characteristic is that there are two line in the body. > > First is a sentence, second

Re: russian spam with only two lines in the body

2010-08-24 Thread Benny Pedersen
On ons 25 aug 2010 04:29:02 CEST, Jason Haar wrote It's nasty :-( rules can be nasty to :) # # save into local_russian_domains.cf # uri __RU_TLD /\.ru\b/i uri __RU_TLD_WHITE /\bexample\.ru\b/i meta __URI_LISTED (URIBL_AB_SURBL || URIBL_WS_SURBL || URIBL_JP_SURBL || URIBL_BLACK || URIBL_DB

Re: russian spam with only two lines in the body

2010-08-24 Thread Jason Haar
On 08/25/2010 10:06 AM, Ibrahim Harrani wrote: > Hi, > > Recently, I am getting russian spam like at http://pastebin.com/Yf3AusJ4 > > All of their characteristic is that there are two line in the body. > First is a sentence, second is url ending with .ru/ > This is an example of what I reported a

Re: Russian spam

2010-01-25 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> On 1-25-2010 8:42 AM, Richard Smits wrote: >> Does anyone knows any tricks to fight russian spam ? We are getting a >> lot of this for the last weeks. On 25.01.10 08:56, Dan Schaefer wrote: > I have dealt with Russian spam by using on "en" in the ok_languages > variable and increasing the sc

Re: Russian spam

2010-01-25 Thread Dan Schaefer
On 1-25-2010 8:42 AM, Richard Smits wrote: Does anyone knows any tricks to fight russian spam ? We are getting a lot of this for the last weeks. I have dealt with Russian spam by using on "en" in the ok_languages variable and increasing the score for "UNWANTED_LANGUAGE_BODY" to 10. I also incre

Re: Russian spam

2009-01-15 Thread Michael Scheidell
> Anyone know of any good rule-sets to block this sort of spam? > > http://www.unchartedbackwaters.co.uk/files/russian_spam.txt > I get 17 points on that one. And looked the ip up manually on xbl and it is there because its on cbl: http://cbl.abuseat.org/lookup.cgi?ip=84.16.105.146 pts rule nam

Re: Russian spam

2009-01-15 Thread Stefan Luetje
Am 15. Jan 2009 um 01:35 CET schrieb Francis Russell: > Anyone know of any good rule-sets to block this sort of spam? > > http://www.unchartedbackwaters.co.uk/files/russian_spam.txt , | X-Spam-Flag: YES | X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on debian64.potato.lan | X-Spam-

Re: Russian spam

2009-01-14 Thread Francis Russell
Benny Pedersen wrote: Unfortunately, these two are because I receive mail via BT/Yahoo who never do a PTR lookup on the IP. > 3.3 TVD_RCVD_IP4 TVD_RCVD_IP4 > 1.6 TVD_RCVD_IPTVD_RCVD_IP Oddly, I cant get this one to fire on my SA install. > 2.0 FROM_EXCESS_BASE64 Fro

Re: Russian spam

2009-01-14 Thread Ned Slider
Michael Hutchinson wrote: Hello, Be careful with the character-set matching rules. I was using some of them and got a high rate of FP's - it was mainly because of the koi8-r charset, and scoring against that meant I was also scoring against perfectly legitimate technical resource newsletters

Re: Russian spam

2009-01-14 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Thu, January 15, 2009 01:35, Francis Russell wrote: > http://www.unchartedbackwaters.co.uk/files/russian_spam.txt Content analysis details: (12.6 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description -- - 1.5

RE: Russian spam

2009-01-14 Thread Michael Hutchinson
glish. Cheers, Mike -Original Message- From: Ned Slider [mailto:n...@unixmail.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, 15 January 2009 2:04 p.m. To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Russian spam Francis Russell wrote: > Anyone know of any good rule-sets to block this sort of spam? &

Re: Russian spam

2009-01-14 Thread Ned Slider
Francis Russell wrote: Anyone know of any good rule-sets to block this sort of spam? http://www.unchartedbackwaters.co.uk/files/russian_spam.txt I find that Pyzor and Razor completely miss it as well as the DNS blacklists (although I believe this one has a relay in one of the Spamhaus ones now)

RE: Russian spam

2009-01-14 Thread Michael Hutchinson
Hello, You could write a Meta rule that contained two sub rules - one for matching "The Bat!" mailer, and the other matching the "chat.ru" link at the bottom. Fire a score if both rules hit. It may not be optimal, but it got rid of that Spam for me, and I haven't had a FP yet. If you check out

RE: russian spam

2007-12-05 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Jean-Paul Natola schrieb: > Hi all, > > Is there a plugin and/or rule to block russian spam? > > Here's a sample [...] > Jean-Paul I think the key is to give special score for "cyrillic chars" (unless this doesnt affect your regular mails). Perhaps: ok_locales e.g: ok_locales en But i

Re: russian spam

2007-12-05 Thread Matthias Haegele
Jean-Paul Natola schrieb: Hi all, Is there a plugin and/or rule to block russian spam? Here's a sample [...] Jean-Paul I think the key is to give special score for "cyrillic chars" (unless this doesnt affect your regular mails). Perhaps: ok_locales e.g: ok_locales en But i dont exp

Re: Russian Spam

2006-04-15 Thread mouss
Kristopher Austin wrote: I have received several copies of a spam message that is in Russian (I think it's Russian). I get maybe 1 or 2 a week. I wish I could block all Russian messages, but we are a University and could easily have Russian students. I am unable to read this message and the

Re: Russian Spam

2006-04-14 Thread Philip Prindeville
Are you running Mimedefang? It might be a start. We block email from subscriber addresses at networks that are known to be large sources of spam. See: http://www.mimedefang.org/kwiki/index.cgi?PhilipsWorkingFilter in particular, how %bad_tld's is used. -Philip Kristopher Austin wrote: >I h