Anti-Phishing Update -- New data feed

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Jun 19 09:06:33 IST 2009



On 18/06/2009 21:54, Steve Freegard wrote:
> Mark Sapiro wrote:
>    
>> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 09:14:27AM +0100, Julian Field wrote:
>>      
>>> On 17/06/2009 17:01, Steve Freegard wrote:
>>>        
>>>> In addition to removing the 'full' rules; change (match|match|match) to
>>>> (?:match|match|match) which is non-capturing and should save a
>>>> considerable amount of memory in SA and should reduce these times.
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> I have made both those changes.
>>>        
>>
>> v2.02 has changed the regexps in the rules from the form
>>
>> ((local1 at example.com)|(local2 at example.com) ... (localn at example.com))
>>
>> to
>>
>> (?:(local1 at example.com)|(local2 at example.com) ... (localn at example.com))
>>
>> but wouldn't
>>
>> (?:(?:local1 at example.com)|(?:local2 at example.com) ... (?:localn at example.com))
>>
>> be much better in terms of saving memory by not capturing matches?
>>
>> See the attached Spear.Phishing.Rules.patch
>>
>>      
> I hadn't noticed that; but both are wrong - it should be:
>
> (?:local1\@example\.com|local2\@example\.com)
>
> As the inner parenthesis are unnecessary.
>    
Fixed. Up to 2.03 now.

Jules

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