[SURBL-Discuss] {Spam?} RE: someone found a way to beat SURBL

Chris Santerre csanterre at merchantsoverseas.com
Mon Jul 26 10:08:55 CEST 2004



>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rob McEwen [mailto:webmaster at powerviewsystems.com]
>Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2004 10:11 PM
>To: 'Jeff Chan'; 'SURBL Discussion list'
>Subject: [SURBL-Discuss] {Spam?} RE: someone found a way to beat SURBL
>Importance: High
>
>
>RE: someone found a way to beat SURBL
>
>They take the following url:
>
>http://google.info/url?q=
>
>and follow this by their own URL HTMLEncoded
>
>The trick is for the parser to be able to find and decode this 
>HTMLEncoded
>url when gathering URLs for checking against SURBL.
>
>I purposely did not send this to the discussion group because 
>I didn't want
>this to be "out there" for spammers to know about. However, it 
>would be good
>for the various "parser writers" for the various software 
>programs that work
>with SURBL to be aware of this.
>
>Rob McEwen
>PowerView Systems
>rob at PowerViewSystems.com
>(478) 475-9032
>

Standard redirect technique, which there is a SARE rule for and SA 3.0 will
nail this no problem. 

--Chris


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