Rise in Viagra spam

Golden, James jgolden at ci.grand-rapids.mi.us
Thu Jul 27 20:22:35 IST 2006


Are you saying that are included in the spamassassin base rules or Rules
Du Jour?   Rules Du Jour still puts the antidrug.cf file as a
recommended other.

On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 12:05 -0700, Scott Silva wrote:

> Garry Glendown spake the following on 7/27/2006 1:58 AM:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > over the last couple days we've had a pretty drastic increase in Viagra
> > spam ... I have some (older) antidrug-cf and several Rules Du Jour
> > configs running, but scores are (though just barely) too low ... here's
> > a sample:
> > 
> > ---
> > VlljAGRA from 3 , 35 $
> > AMjBlIEN
> > CIjALIlS from 3 , 75 $
> > VAjLIlUM from 1 , 25 $
> > ---
> > 
> > It has an ASCII and HTML version included, and also sports a piece of
> > random text from some literature ... spam scores usually look like this:
> > 
> > X-nethinks-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (Wertung=4.05,
> >     benoetigt 5, BAYES_50 0.00, FORGED_RCVD_HELO 0.14, HTML_50_60 0.13,
> >     HTML_MESSAGE 0.00, URIBL_SBL 1.64, URIBL_WS_SURBL 2.14)
> > 
> > though some have scored BAYES_60 ... (I already ran a couple dozen of
> > the spam mails through sa-learn, but that has not increased bayes enough
> > ...)
> > 
> > Anybody have a suggestion as to another Rules Du Jour set or something?
> > 
> > Thanks, -gg
> I don't think you should be running antidrug with spamassassin 3.0.0 or
> better. Most of it was included, and adding that .cf messes with the scoring.
> 
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