SA Bugzilla – Bug 697
RATWARE false positive
Last modified: 2002-08-13 22:07:04 UTC
The following headers are extracted from a real-live false positive: From: mertz@gnosis.cx (David Mertz, Ph.D.) To: xml-sig@python.org Subject: Listing Gnosis_Utils with PyXML pages Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 00:01:29 -0400 Organization: Gnosis Software Reply-To: mertz@gnosis.cx MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <ZYdW9kKkXQ+B092yn@gnosis.cx> X-Mailer: Yarn for OS/2 v0.92 X-Moon-Phase: The Moon is a Waxing Crescent. (34.4778% of Full). X-Copyright: No copyrot! This message is placed into the public domain. X-Niggle: Indicated fair-use quotations retain their original copyright. X-Squaresville: Yes The main reason this message scored as spam is because the string "Crescent" appears in the headers (see X-Moon-Phase) -- this triggers the RATWARE rule, which is worth 4.6 points. Ouch! RATWARE seems awfully broad to me, since it searches the entire header block for a large number of substrings. Perhaps it should be split into two rules: one for the X-Mailer header (or whatever the most common one is), and one for the rest of the headers.
don't worry -- this is already fixed in CVS.