[SURBL-Discuss] another redirector ?

Eric Kolve ekolve at comcast.net
Tue Apr 27 17:07:31 CEST 2004


On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 03:43:19PM -0700, Jeff Chan wrote:
> On Tuesday, April 27, 2004, 3:13:48 PM, Simon Byrnand wrote:
> > Just spotted the following redirected URL in a spam. Doesn't look like it
> > will be getting caught yet with the current redirector rules:
> 
> > http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=gmib.free.fr/viagra.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.google.com/url?q=%68%74%74%70%3A%2F%2F%77%77%77%2E%65%78%70%61%67%65%2E%63%6F%6D%2F%6D%61%6E%67%65%72%33%32
> 
> > Using images.google.ca as a redirector ? Thats a new one.... I'm not game
> > to click on the link to see where it goes though... its from the same
> > spammer that was blatently abusing the yahoo redirectors and msn ones...
> 
> > Is this a sign that the current system used in SpamCopURI (checking HTTP
> > responses of specifically mentioned redirectors) is just going to play
> > catchup all the time ?
> 
> I think this would be caught by the urirhsbl approach of
> splitting all the visible URIs in a redirection URI then
> checking them all.
> 
> Perhaps SpamCopURI would need a conf change to add
> images.google.ca?

Hmm.  I would add it, but it doesn't actually seem to work as a redirector.

--eric


> 
> Jeff C.
> 
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