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Spam RAR in RAR getting thru

PostPosted: Fri May 04, 2012 7:33 pm
by grnews
Hi, I have Newsbin 6.31 Build 1877 with Agressive Spam Filters on. I am continually ending up with password protected RAR files in my UnRAR folder. I looked at other posts and did some checking. These are not getting by via the missing first RAR in the set. It is all happening during auto download.

Re: Spam RAR in RAR getting thru

PostPosted: Fri May 04, 2012 8:40 pm
by Quade
PM me the subject of a couple of them and I'll check it out. Don't post it here.

Re: Spam RAR in RAR getting thru

PostPosted: Sat May 05, 2012 12:20 am
by Quade
Thanks for the links.

They're pretty clever. The first RAR is there but, only 450K of it so, the NFO is listed but, the other files in the set aren't. They force a repair every time.

I'll have to look into it.

Re: Spam RAR in RAR getting thru

PostPosted: Sat May 05, 2012 8:59 am
by grnews
Is it possible to tell from any good part of the post that it is a RAR in RAR?
I don't care if it has a password or not, they are almost always garbage.
If you can tell and add an option to kill those too, that would be great.
The small # of legit ones that get failed can always be manually downloaded.

Re: Spam RAR in RAR getting thru

PostPosted: Sat May 05, 2012 9:16 am
by Quade
Well, that's the part I have to look into. It already filters "large RAR inside RAR" files but, if most of the first chunk is missing, you can't see the rar filename listed in the first RAR file.

Re: Spam RAR in RAR getting thru

PostPosted: Mon May 07, 2012 12:17 pm
by Quade
I have a fix for this. It'll be in 6.40. I'm not going to describe how it works for obvious reasons.