On Friday 10 August 2007, Dallas Engelken wrote: >David B Funk wrote: >> On Sat, 11 Aug 2007, wolfgang wrote: >>> In an older episode (Friday, 10. August 2007), Mike Cisar wrote: >>>> Has anyone else been seeing the empty-body "PDF" spam, but with a >>>> .fdf file extension. Had a whole pile in my inbox here this morning. >>> >>> Thousands of them went through our mail gateways at work. A typo in some >>> bot? >> >> No, merely the next episode in the never-ending spam-wars saga. >> >> A ".fdf" file is yet another Adobe file type and double-clicking on one >> (in a Windows box) will launch Acrobat-reader and display its contents. >> However anti-spam weapons such as PDFinfo are explicitly coded to look >> for ".pdf" files, thus ".fdf" is given a pass. >> This shows the cleverness behind (at least some of) the spammers. >> >> A quick edit will update PDFinfo to check ".fdf" files too. > >that was done this morning if you want to grab a new version... >http://www.rulesemporium.com/plugins/PDFInfo.pm
I think what he is asking, and I sure am, is how do you get sa-update to pick up these new modules. I have PDFInfo.pm installed, but an sa-update -D [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dailys]# sa-update -D [31662] dbg: logger: adding facilities: all [31662] dbg: logger: logging level is DBG [31662] dbg: generic: SpamAssassin version 3.2.3 [31662] dbg: config: score set 0 chosen. [31662] dbg: dns: is Net::DNS::Resolver available? yes [31662] dbg: dns: Net::DNS version: 0.60 [31662] dbg: generic: sa-update version svn540384 [31662] dbg: generic: using update directory: /var/lib/spamassassin/3.002003 [31662] dbg: diag: perl platform: 5.008008 linux [31662] dbg: diag: module installed: Digest::SHA1, version 2.11 [31662] dbg: diag: module installed: HTML::Parser, version 3.55 [31662] dbg: diag: module installed: Net::DNS, version 0.60 [31662] dbg: diag: module installed: MIME::Base64, version 3.07 [31662] dbg: diag: module installed: DB_File, version 1.814 [31662] dbg: diag: module installed: Net::SMTP, version 2.29 [31662] dbg: diag: module installed: Mail::SPF, version v2.004 [31662] dbg: diag: module installed: Mail::SPF::Query, version 1.999001 [31662] dbg: diag: module installed: IP::Country::Fast, version 604.001 [31662] dbg: diag: module installed: Razor2::Client::Agent, version 2.82 [31662] dbg: diag: module installed: Net::Ident, version 1.20 [31662] dbg: diag: module installed: IO::Socket::INET6, version 2.51 [31662] dbg: diag: module installed: IO::Socket::SSL, version 1.01 [31662] dbg: diag: module installed: Compress::Zlib, version 1.42 [31662] dbg: diag: module installed: Time::HiRes, version 1.86 [31662] dbg: diag: module installed: Mail::DomainKeys, version 1.0 [31662] dbg: diag: module installed: Mail::DKIM, version 0.26 [31662] dbg: diag: module installed: DBI, version 1.52 [31662] dbg: diag: module installed: Getopt::Long, version 2.35 [31662] dbg: diag: module installed: LWP::UserAgent, version 2.033 [31662] dbg: diag: module installed: HTTP::Date, version 1.47 [31662] dbg: diag: module installed: Archive::Tar, version 1.30 [31662] dbg: diag: module installed: IO::Zlib, version 1.04 [31662] dbg: diag: module installed: Encode::Detect, version 1.00 [31662] dbg: gpg: Searching for 'gpg' [31662] dbg: util: current PATH is: /usr/lib/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/lib/ccache:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin [31662] dbg: util: executable for gpg was found at /usr/bin/gpg [31662] dbg: gpg: found /usr/bin/gpg [31662] dbg: gpg: release trusted key id list: [...] [31662] dbg: channel: attempting channel updates.spamassassin.org [31662] dbg: channel: update directory /var/lib/spamassassin/3.002003/updates_spamassassin_org [31662] dbg: channel: channel cf file /var/lib/spamassassin/3.002003/updates_spamassassin_org.cf [31662] dbg: channel: channel pre file /var/lib/spamassassin/3.002003/updates_spamassassin_org.pre [31662] dbg: channel: metadata version = 556472 [31662] dbg: dns: 3.2.3.updates.spamassassin.org => 556472, parsed as 556472 [31662] dbg: channel: current version is 556472, new version is 556472, skipping channel [31662] dbg: diag: updates complete, exiting with code 1 =========== session ignores that fact. A config error someplace? Smart did update some perl stuffs today but that wasn't in the list. My pdfinfo.cf, and my PDFInfo.pm are both dated July 19, all 3 copies of each, and I too am beginning to drown in this crap. So how DO we get sa-update to actually update this stuff? Thanks. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. -- John Ciardi