Watch & Viagra Spam getting through....

Max Kipness max at KIPNESS.COM
Mon Nov 14 14:25:53 GMT 2005


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I've asked this question before and never really got any suggestions. Now
it seems like in the last few days I'm getting much more spam.

I'm using the latest version of MailScanner, Spamassassin 3.x, Razor2,
DCC, and rules du jour.

Even though a high percentage of spam is caught, like I said, lately a lot
of viagra, watch spam, etc has been getting through. Bayes gets the spam
every time with 99% and adds 3.5 to the score. As I have the "is spam"
score set to 6, that doesn't do much good. Everything seems to be working
right based on the tests I've run (SA lint). This spam simply is not
detected by DCC, rules or Razor. I guess the spammers are getting smarter.

Can someone give me some recommendations as to how to catch this spam? How
do some of the commercial products handle this? Are there new modules that
can be added to MailScanner now?

Thanks,
Max

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