News from the cesspoll

Martin Hepworth martinh at solid-state-logic.com
Fri Apr 28 15:17:12 IST 2006


Well there's the default URI-RBL's that get installed with SA 3.x

And another good two are from http://www.uribl.com/

You'll need the Net::DNS installed and the SA- plugin activitad in init.pre.



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Martin Hepworth 
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> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Dave Shariff Yadallee -
> System Administrator a.k.a. The Root of the Problem
> Sent: 28 April 2006 15:08
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: News from the cesspoll
> 
> On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 02:54:51PM +0100, Martin Hepworth wrote:
> >
> >
> > URI-RBL's would catch this fairly quickly, as they do already...nothing
> to
> > see here, move along..
> >
> 
> URL for the above please.  Also, which RBL do we add to our
> rbdnsbl list?
> 
> > --
> > Martin Hepworth
> > Snr Systems Administrator
> > Solid State Logic
> > Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> > > bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Dave Shariff Yadallee -
> > > System Administrator a.k.a. The Root of the Problem
> > > Sent: 28 April 2006 14:39
> > > To: MailScanner discussion
> > > Subject: Re: News from the cesspoll
> > >
> > > On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 09:24:18AM -0400, Rose, Bobby wrote:
> > > > I'm confused...how is the use of highjacked/infected computers to
> send
> > > > out spam using forged addresses obtained from the infected computer
> new?
> > > > This tactic has been used before.
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> > > > [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of
> Steve
> > > > Ellis
> > > > Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 9:08 AM
> > > > To: MailScanner discussion
> > > > Subject: Re: News from the cesspoll
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > See
> > > >
> http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060428.wxspam28/BNS
> > > > tory/Technology/home
> > > >
> > > > At 08:41 AM 4/28/2006, you wrote:
> > > > >University of Calgary in Canada has devised an e-mail that is spam
> that
> > > >
> > > > >can fool filters.  Julian waht do you know about this?
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