Re: zombies

2005-08-20 Thread Jim Knuth
Hallo und Guten Tag Justin, Heute (am 20.08.2005 - 04:50 Uhr) schriebst Du: > unfortunately, there's no sign of a pyzor process starting there. > a search for "pyzor" finds nothing. yeah, sorry. But I have logged a long time and this was not. :( Another possibility? -- Viele Grüße, Kind r

Re: zombies

2005-08-19 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim Knuth writes: > Hallo und Guten Tag Justin, > > Gestern (am 18.08.2005 - 22:39 Uhr) >schriebst Du: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > hmm -- sounds like a bug. > > > If you can capture an "strace" trace of a spa

Re: zombies

2005-08-19 Thread Mark Martinec
ry couple of minutes (when pyzor times out) on an otherwise normally running system. I even suspect that an implicit Perl close (in subsequent open) does not reclaim (wait(2)) a child process. These zombies eventually go away by themselves when the parent process retires (being reclaimed by th

Re: zombies

2005-08-19 Thread Mark Martinec
> > > > Since I use SpamAssassin 3.001000, I have sometimes zombies. And > > > > I`ve found out it. The zombie was pyzor. > > My first guess it that it is a symptom of: > > http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4518 > Yep, that's a pos

Re: zombies

2005-08-18 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim Knuth writes: > Hallo und Guten Morgen Justin, > > Heute (am 19.08.2005 - 01:45 Uhr) >schriebst Du: > > > > > Yep, that's a possibility... Jim, you use > > > strace -fo LOG -p $pid > > > to trace an amavisd-new process (or spamd proce

Re: zombies

2005-08-18 Thread Jim Knuth
Hallo und Guten Morgen Justin, Heute (am 19.08.2005 - 01:45 Uhr) schriebst Du: > > Yep, that's a possibility... Jim, you use > strace -fo LOG -p $pid > to trace an amavisd-new process (or spamd process etc.), then > scan some mails until it happens. If it occurs due to a traced > proce

Re: zombies

2005-08-18 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Martinec writes: > Jim Knuth writes: > > > Since I use SpamAssassin 3.001000, I have sometimes zombies. And > > > I`ve found out it. The zombie was pyzor. Before this was not. > > > What can I do? Switch off pyzor

Re: zombies

2005-08-18 Thread Mark Martinec
Jim Knuth writes: > > Since I use SpamAssassin 3.001000, I have sometimes zombies. And > > I`ve found out it. The zombie was pyzor. Before this was not. > > What can I do? Switch off pyzor? Or? > > > > Spamassassin works with amavisd-new 2.3.3pre1 and Postfix 2

Re: zombies

2005-08-18 Thread Jim Knuth
Hallo und Guten Abend Justin, Heute (am 18.08.2005 - 22:39 Uhr) schriebst Du: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > hmm -- sounds like a bug. > If you can capture an "strace" trace of a spamd process starting Sorry, but I don`t no how. :( Can you give me an hint? > a pyzor

Re: zombies

2005-08-18 Thread Justin Mason
; > Since I use SpamAssassin 3.001000, I have sometimes zombies. And > I`ve found out it. The zombie was pyzor. Before this was not. > What can I do? Switch off pyzor? Or? > > Spamassassin works with amavisd-new 2.3.3pre1 and Postfix 2.3.* -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.

zombies

2005-08-18 Thread Jim Knuth
Hallo und Guten Abend spamassassin-users, Since I use SpamAssassin 3.001000, I have sometimes zombies. And I`ve found out it. The zombie was pyzor. Before this was not. What can I do? Switch off pyzor? Or? Spamassassin works with amavisd-new 2.3.3pre1 and Postfix 2.3.* -- Viele Grüße, Kind

OT: News: FTC urges ISPs to throttle spam zombies

2005-05-25 Thread David Brodbeck
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11230?ref=rss Quick summary: The Federal Trade Commission is launching an educational campaign to try to convince ISPs to block port 25, rate-limit email relays, and quarantine infected machines.

Re: Was: List of spamvertised sites sent via zombies, open proxies, etc.?

2005-03-13 Thread Jeff Chan
It would probably help if I explained that I brought up two different but related ides in quick succession: 1. Asking for URI domains of messages sent through zombies, open relays, open proxies, etc. detected by XBL that mentioned SURBL URIs. 2. Asking for URI domains of messages sent through

Re: Was: List of spamvertised sites sent via zombies, open proxies, etc.?

2005-03-13 Thread Jeff Chan
a `new' exploited > machine that hasn't made its way onto the lists yet (like IP jumping, being > a RHS list is an advantage here too). Exactly. Any site advertised many times through zombie-delivered spams is likely to belong to spammers and not whitehats. Whitehats probably

Re: Was: List of spamvertised sites sent via zombies, open proxies, etc.?

2005-03-13 Thread List Mail User
ed in was sent through open relays, >>> zombies, open proxies, etc. In other words does anyone know >>> of a list of spamvertised web sites or their domains that's >>> been cross referenced to exploited hosts? > >>> We could use that information as a valua

Re: [SURBL-Discuss] Re: Was: List of spamvertised sites sent via zombies, open proxies, etc.?

2005-03-13 Thread Jeff Chan
On Sunday, March 13, 2005, 7:31:01 AM, Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote: >> I'm not asking for trap data. I'm asking to look for XBL hits, >> then take the URIs from messages that hit XBL. In other words >> I want to get the sites that are being advertised through >> exploited hosts. >> >> Nothing to do

Re: Was: List of spamvertised sites sent via zombies, open proxies, etc.?

2005-03-13 Thread Jeff Chan
ders then prioritize those say by frequency >> of appearance, we could create a new SURBL list of spamvertised >> domains sent through exploited hosts. That would pretty directly >> address the use of zombies, etc. and put a penalty on using them >> to advertise sites through

Re: [SURBL-Discuss] List of spamvertised sites sent via zombies, open proxies, etc.?

2005-03-13 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Jeff Chan wrote on Sun, 13 Mar 2005 05:12:30 -0800: > One fairly easy for anyone running a large SpamAssassin > installation to help us get this data would be to simply grep > for "XBL" and "SURBL" rules hitting the same message and report > out the URI domains from those messages. > I have a

Was: List of spamvertised sites sent via zombies, open proxies, etc.?

2005-03-13 Thread Jeff Chan
On Sunday, March 13, 2005, 5:12:30 AM, Jeff Chan wrote: > On Friday, March 11, 2005, 11:27:52 PM, Jeff Chan wrote: >> Does anyone have or know about a list of spam-advertised URIs >> where the spam they appeared in was sent through open relays, >> zombies, open proxies, etc.

Re: [SURBL-Discuss] List of spamvertised sites sent via zombies, open proxies, etc.?

2005-03-13 Thread Jeff Chan
On Friday, March 11, 2005, 11:27:52 PM, Jeff Chan wrote: > Does anyone have or know about a list of spam-advertised URIs > where the spam they appeared in was sent through open relays, > zombies, open proxies, etc. In other words does anyone know > of a list of spamvertised web si

List of spamvertised sites sent via zombies, open proxies, etc.?

2005-03-12 Thread Jeff Chan
Does anyone have or know about a list of spam-advertised URIs where the spam they appeared in was sent through open relays, zombies, open proxies, etc. In other words does anyone know of a list of spamvertised web sites or their domains that's been cross referenced to exploited hosts? We

Re: Side-warning about the new proxy zombies...

2005-02-08 Thread Brian Godette
On Tuesday 08 February 2005 2:14 pm, Kenneth Porter wrote: > --On Tuesday, February 08, 2005 11:14 AM -0700 Brian Godette > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > care must be taken to have the expiry times > > reasonable or the iptables rule lists becomes much too large and > > eventually chews up all

Re: Side-warning about the new proxy zombies...

2005-02-08 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Tuesday, February 08, 2005 1:14 PM -0800 Kenneth Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Have you seen the "ipset" stuff on the netfilter-devel list? This is a new set of modules that works with sets of addresses. It should allow you to have a much larger rejection list. Just checked, this project

Re: Side-warning about the new proxy zombies...

2005-02-08 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Tuesday, February 08, 2005 11:14 AM -0700 Brian Godette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: care must be taken to have the expiry times reasonable or the iptables rule lists becomes much too large and eventually chews up all available CPU. Have you seen the "ipset" stuff on the netfilter-devel list?

Re: Side-warning about the new proxy zombies...

2005-02-08 Thread Brian Godette
On Thursday 03 February 2005 4:22 pm, Matt Kettler wrote: > At 06:13 PM 2/3/2005, Brian Godette wrote: > >Those sorts of mail servers end up in my firewall rules till some point in > >the > >future. > > I started off using a shun on them as a short-term fix, but then went to a > 500 error message f

Re: Side-warning about the new proxy zombies...

2005-02-04 Thread Spam Admin
Don't know if it's related, but I'm seeing a SIGNIFICANT increase in SMTP REJECTs, something to the tune of a 10- to 15-fold increase. I started seeing it simultaneously on both my primary and secondary boxes, starting around 7:AM EST yesterday (Thursday). I log RBL rejects as 'spam' so this is som

Re: Side-warning about the new proxy zombies...

2005-02-03 Thread Matt Kettler
At 06:13 PM 2/3/2005, Brian Godette wrote: Those sorts of mail servers end up in my firewall rules till some point in the future. I started off using a shun on them as a short-term fix, but then went to a 500 error message for all mail from the server in /etc/mail/access. They seem to behave pro

Re: Side-warning about the new proxy zombies...

2005-02-03 Thread Brian Godette
On Thursday 03 February 2005 3:32 pm, Matt Kettler wrote: > I encountered one ISP who's legitimate mail gateway is freaking out under > the load of all the proxy spam. > > It's now retrying temp-fail messages immediately without any delay... 24+ > times per second. > > Since I have Sendmail set up

Side-warning about the new proxy zombies...

2005-02-03 Thread Matt Kettler
I encountered one ISP who's legitimate mail gateway is freaking out under the load of all the proxy spam. It's now retrying temp-fail messages immediately without any delay... 24+ times per second. Since I have Sendmail set up to verify sender domains exist, a lot of spam gets a 451 error.. Un