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smart spam using =2Eco=2Euk

Hi,

this spam jumped through my surbl rules (see below)

They obviously used hex for the .(dot) - smart way to get around surbl.

I am running sa 2.63 (I know, I need to upgrade), but is this likely fixed 
in newer releases ?

regards
Scott Farrell 
Phone: 02-9411 3622  Mobile: 0412 927 156

http://www.icconsulting.com.au
ic Consulting - helping you with innovation.
We offer e-business consulting and perform services. We deliver high 
impact consulting, and fast turn around projects for our clients.
Ask us about Web Content Management,  Web Self Service, or working closer 
with your customers or suppliers.

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20:53:30 +1000
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Subject: May Madness
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 11:22:25 +0100
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Workstations   Notebooks   Rack-Mount   Servers   Components

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Tel:   020 8997 6000
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Re: smart spam using =2Eco=2Euk

Posted by Jeff Chan <je...@surbl.org>.
On Tuesday, May 10, 2005, 5:12:12 AM, sub sub wrote:
> Hi,

> this spam jumped through my surbl rules (see below)

> They obviously used hex for the .(dot) - smart way to get around surbl.

> I am running sa 2.63 (I know, I need to upgrade), but is this likely fixed 
> in newer releases ?

My SA 2.64 with SpamCopURI correctly parses this as:

  debug: checking url: http://www.broadberry.co.uk

But broadberry.co.uk is not blacklisted in SURBLs.

You can locally blacklist hosts with SpamCopURI by using conf
file entries like:

  blacklist_spamcop_uri   broadberry.co.uk

Cheers,

Jeff C.

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-- 
Jeff Chan
mailto:jeffc@surbl.org
http://www.surbl.org/