Bug 2102 - Undetected obfuscating comments
Summary: Undetected obfuscating comments
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1844
Alias: None
Product: Spamassassin
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Rules (show other bugs)
Version: 2.55
Hardware: PC Linux
: P5 normal
Target Milestone: 2.70
Assignee: SpamAssassin Developer Mailing List
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Reported: 2003-06-20 00:41 UTC by Michel Bouissou
Modified: 2003-06-19 17:25 UTC (History)
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Description Michel Bouissou 2003-06-20 00:41:11 UTC 
Hello, 
I just received an HTML spam with the follo<!something!>wing kind of 
obfu<!word!>scating comments that got undetected by SA. 
(Obfuscating comments being random words) 
 
This kind of obfuscating comments should be considered a very strong spam 
sign. 
 
Furthermore, when manually "learnt" as spam into Bayes, the bayesian DB stores 
all the "!random!" words as tokens, including exclamation marks. 
 
Hope this helps.
Comment 1 Daniel Quinlan 2003-06-20 00:56:00 UTC 
fixed in 2.60-cvs



*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 1844 ***
Comment 2 Michel Bouissou 2003-06-20 00:58:43 UTC 
Subject: Re:  Undetected obfuscating comments

> quinlan@pathname.com changed:
>          Resolution|                            |DUPLICATE

Oops, sorry :-/
Comment 3 Tom Hudson 2003-06-20 01:05:00 UTC 
#2016 contains an alternative regex which catches more obfuscations than the
current obfuscating comments regex, if someone would be interested in putting it
in cvs.
Comment 4 Daniel Quinlan 2003-06-20 01:25:06 UTC 
> #2016 contains an alternative regex which catches more obfuscations than the
> current obfuscating comments regex, if someone would be interested in putting
> it in cvs.

We can test it for 2.70.

Note that #2016 was filed against SpamAssassin 2.53, not 2.60-cvs.