On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 13:33 +0200, Paweł Tęcza wrote:
> Ibrahim Harrani pisze:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > another header from another image spams.
> > All images contain god, bad and a url with numbers.
> 
> The spamers are cunning... It seems that they have stopped sending spams
> with X-Mailer: header containing something like "PHP v5.2.0" or
> "PHP/4.4.5". Also they don't use only digits in attachment filenames.
> So I'm affraid that my Spamassassin rules are not effective for that
> kind of spam :(
> 
> > It seems that ocrad can't decode the strings in the images.
> > FuzzyOcr version is 3.6.0
> 
> I've added "BAD", "GOOD" and exemplary domain name to my FuzzyOcr word
> file, but unfortunately FuzzyOcr didn't recognise them :(
> 
> Maybe someone has better idea how to fight that image spam?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> P.
> 
But this is all totally academic; Why jump through all the hoops to
block the image when the original connecting IP is showing 'unknown' in
the hostname

Received: from unknown (HELO ognh.user.ono.com)

Is listed on piles of policy and RBL lists;

62.57.252.74     listed in b.barracudacentral.org. 
62.57.252.74     listed in PBL (SPAMHAUS) 
62.57.252.74     listed in XBL NJABL 
62.57.252.74     listed in dul.dnsbl.sorbs.net 
62.57.252.74     listed in cbl.abuseat.org. 
62.57.252.74     listed in bl.spamcop.net. 
62.57.252.74     listed in no-more-funn.moensted.dk.

and has SEX twice in the subject.

Why would it ever get as far as blocking it on the content? What has
gone so wrong it ever got that far?


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