Anti-Phishing Update -- New data feed

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Sat Jun 20 14:58:40 IST 2009


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On 19/06/2009 14:41, Denis Beauchemin wrote:
> Thanks Julian,
>
> Could you also provide a non-verbose switch like the diff output I 
> joined to this email.
>
> Denis
> Julian Field a écrit :
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>
>

Jules

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