Email viruses are more annoying than spam

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Review: Advanced Spam Manager Attacks
Viruses, Spam For Exchange, Notes

Review: Advanced Spam Manager Attacks
Viruses, Spam For Exchange, Notes 03/27/2005 12:35 PM
Information Week Mar 27 2005 3:25PM GMT

Spam, spam, spam, spam ... Canada
targets unwanted email (AFP)

Spam, spam, spam, spam ... Canada
targets unwanted email (AFP) 05/12/2004 04:17 AM
AFP - Canada unveiled a new action plan to combat unsolicited commercial e-mail, nicknamed spam, which jams inboxes and clogs Internet traffic worldwide.

Spam And Viruses Down?

Spam And Viruses Down? 09/08/2004 02:29 PM
It's only one month's worth of data (and only data from one company), but MessageLabs is claiming that spam and viruses decreased in August. It could just be that, like everyone else, spammers took vacations in August. However, some are suggesting that the US crackdo wn on spam operations may have helped. Of course, it should also be noted that that the creator of six of the ten top viruses is currently sitting in a German jail after charged with computer sabotage, which might just explain the slowdown in virus activity. Unfortunately, it's likely that others will come along to fill in the empty spaces left by those arrested until a longer term solution to spam is developed.

Actif Communications Announces GEF, the
Global eMail Format - Best Practice
eMails that Comply with US Can Spam,
Australian Spam Act and EU Directives

Actif Communications Announces GEF, the
Global eMail Format - Best Practice
eMails that Comply with US Can Spam,
Australian Spam Act and EU Directives 02/01/2005 09:10 PM
The risk in sending commercial emails overseas is not so much from the legislators; it is from the ISP’s who have the power to Black List your company. A new email format has been suggested that not only complies to Best Practices it also meets or exceeds the requirements of Can Spam, The Australian Spam Act and the EU Directives. [PRWEB Feb 1, 2005]

Mobile SMS spam surpasses email spam in
Korea

Mobile SMS spam surpasses email spam in
Korea 01/03/2005 10:21 AM

A Visual History Of Spam And Viruses

A Visual History Of Spam And Viruses 09/17/2004 08:13 PM
A Microsoft employee with some extra time and plenty of spam on his hands has decided to graph out all the spam and viruses he's received since 1997. He's only graphing out the spam that makes it through the corporate spam filter, but it still shows just how much spam has grown over the years. The graph shows spam against the size of the messages, but actually suggests that the Microsoft spam filter has gotten better recently.

Microsoft aims at spam, viruses

Microsoft aims at spam, viruses 11/17/2003 02:05 AM
USA Today Nov 17 2003 1:34AM ET

The Deadly Duo: Spam and Viruses, May
2004

The Deadly Duo: Spam and Viruses, May
2004 06/08/2004 04:15 AM

Microsoft aiming at spam, viruses

Microsoft aiming at spam, viruses 11/18/2003 07:51 PM
"Microsoft has not had merger discussions with Internet search engine Google, as was widely reported, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates says." (Peter Raymond)

Viruses and spam hit small firms harder

Viruses and spam hit small firms harder 06/15/2004 10:00 AM
Costly diversion

Gates: Microsoft aiming at spam, viruses

Gates: Microsoft aiming at spam, viruses 11/17/2003 04:16 AM
USA Today Nov 17 2003 3:21AM ET

Do We Need A Hybrid Approach To Fighting
Spam And Viruses?

Do We Need A Hybrid Approach To Fighting
Spam And Viruses? 05/07/2004 12:11 PM
There's an ongoing battle about how to best fight threats like spam and viruses (and spyware and trojans and worms, etc...). Some think that it should be at the network level, where an ISP or a company can set up filters, while others believe it needs to be at the desktop. In an interview with the CTO for MessageLabs (makers of "managed email security products" - so you know where his bias is) he makes the compelling case for moving the protection up to the network level (of course, he means using MessageLabs' solution). His argument is that you can keep filters much more up-to-date at the network level, even to the point of updating them multiple times per day. It also removes the hassle of end-users getting anywhere near some of these malicious files - some of which use social engineering tricks to get users to do things they shouldn't. Of course, he's only telling half the story. Blocking at the network level is increasingly becoming a necessity, but it assumes that users always access the internet in the same way. These days, with laptops and things like WiFi, people access the internet from many different places, and you don't always know who's managing the network protection. You also don't know who might be connecting to your local network - and what sort of nasty stuff they've already been exposed to. It seems that a hybrid approach is going to become increasingly important. Some have said the trend needs to move from "scan and block" to "comply and connect" - which may represent the hybrid approach that things are heading towards. You allow most of the filtering to still occur on the network, but you don't allow an individual machine to connect to a network unless it's been shown to "comply" with whatever security policies have been established. While more corporate users are moving in this direction, it may be time for residential broadband service providers to look at providing similar solutions themselves. The issue, as always, is how much control people are willing to give their service providers. No one wants to be denied a connection because suddenly their ISP says they haven't complied with some weird security aspect that the user knows they have complied with. However, as these malicious attacks get worse, it's likely that we're going to move closer to a world where getting on the network is going to mean proving you're clean, while network level machines will be required to block out the nastiest attacks.

Spam-seeding viruses dominate August
charts

Spam-seeding viruses dominate August
charts 09/01/2004 09:13 PM

Aplus.Net Protects Customers from Spam
and Computer Viruses

Aplus.Net Protects Customers from Spam
and Computer Viruses 12/02/2003 04:15 AM
TopHosts.com Dec 2 2003 3:10AM ET

LaneChange.net Launches Service to
Protect Businesses from Spam and Viruses

LaneChange.net Launches Service to
Protect Businesses from Spam and Viruses 06/07/2004 04:09 AM
Cost effective solution offers real-time server threat protection against Spam, worms and computer viruses without up-front hardware costs. [PRWEB Jun 7, 2004]

Email Spam worse now that Can-Spam is
Here

Email Spam worse now that Can-Spam is
Here 02/10/2004 02:45 AM

Has anyone else noticed that now that the Can-Spam Act passed by the federal government has gone into effect, spam via email is actually worse than it was?

This is ridiculous. In the past week I've received at least 4-5 times more spam than I did in a week last year...

I'd like to install a server-side spam filtering system that's compatible with qmail, but I don't have the time or knowledge to actually get it installed... especially since I've been considering buying a Handspring Treo 600 to check my email more regularly...

Although, I wonder if I'm getting more spam because of the social networks I've joined in the past couple of weeks? Hmmm... I'm going to change those email addresses now...

Anyone want to install a server side spam filter system for me on the cheap?

New Technology Makes the Fight Against
Hackers Spam and Viruses Easier, Cheaper

New Technology Makes the Fight Against
Hackers Spam and Viruses Easier, Cheaper 09/09/2004 03:14 AM
Greencomputer's PowerElf® II Server Appliance Cut Costs for SMB/Enterprise, by providing a cheap and complete solution. [PRWEB Sep 9, 2004]

Rising tide of spam, viruses ruining
internet for middle Britain says report

Rising tide of spam, viruses ruining
internet for middle Britain says report 10/31/2003 02:43 AM
PublicTechnology.net Oct 31 2003 1:53AM ET

Web Vipers: Computer Users Must Guard
Against Threats Posed by Spam, Viruses
And Hackers -- Or Else

Web Vipers: Computer Users Must Guard
Against Threats Posed by Spam, Viruses
And Hackers -- Or Else 11/03/2003 03:42 PM
Washington Post Nov 3 2003 3:17PM ET

Email Sentinel Pro Protects E-mail
Attachments and Prevents E-mail Viruses

Email Sentinel Pro Protects E-mail
Attachments and Prevents E-mail Viruses 07/15/2004 03:05 AM
Email Sentinel Pro 2.6 prevents users from receiving dangerous e-mails, by blocking attachments, scripts, images and spamming techniques before they reach the Inbox folder. Viruses aren't the only reason to be concerned about HTML email. Spammers use email bugs, scripts and images hidden in the HTML to track anyone who opens their email. E-mail Sentinel Pro stops spammers from verifying an address. [PRWEB Jul 15, 2004]

X % of email is Spam

X % of email is Spam 07/06/2004 09:51 PM
85% of all email is spam. 83% of all email is spam. Between 80 and 90% of all email is spam. 80% of all email is spam. 76%< /a> of all email is spam. Between 64 and 78% of all email is spam. 64% of all email is spam. 63%< /a> of all email is spam. 60% of all email is spam. 52% of all email in 2004 will be spam. 50% of all email is spam. By 2006 98% of all email will be spam.

One third of email now spam

One third of email now spam 04/20/2004 08:39 AM
Cost to business measured in millions

One third of email now spam | The
Register

One third of email now spam | The
Register 04/22/2004 05:17 AM
one third of email is now spam .. The Register

theregister.co.uk/2004/04/20/idc_spam_survey
track this site | 3 links

Email Spam and Phishing

Email Spam and Phishing 05/12/2004 05:18 PM
WebDevInfo May 12 2004 8:18PM GMT

Beat Spam By Not Using Email

Beat Spam By Not Using Email 09/10/2004 10:43 AM

Now We Need A Company To Tell Us When
Our Email Is Spam Too

Now We Need A Company To Tell Us When
Our Email Is Spam Too 01/09/2004 09:50 PM
It's really quite impressive how many other businesses spam has generated. There are all the anti-spam companies, and now there's even a company that will monitor if your (one assumes) legitimate email is being called spam. Return Path has a bunch of email accounts at major ISPs and signed up for various spam blocking services. They also monitor all the various blacklists - and will alert you (if you're a big company and you pay them money) if your emails are getting stopped by a spam blocker. They'll also tell you why and make suggestions on how to de-spamify your email. Anyone else think things are getting even more ridiculous when you have to pay a company to make sure your perfectly legitimate email isn't being blocked?

Unplugging Email To Combat Spam

Unplugging Email To Combat Spam 06/23/2004 03:58 PM

Spam email CD contents analyzed

Spam email CD contents analyzed 01/02/2004 02:35 PM
A fascinating analysis of the contents of a "millions of email addresses" CDROM acquired via a spam-advertisement:

You can find a number of addresses you don't want to send spam to. The spammer didn't even remove the abuse@ and postmaster@ addresses, 175 and 561 respectively. Both of them have doubles themselves. These role accounts include respectable providers that have a widely known anti-spam policy: the abuse desk of XS4ALL appears 5 times, the abuse desk of Planet three times and their postmasters will receive the spam three times each.

Role accounts not only encompass abuse desks or Network Operation Centers, but also operational accounts like 'hostmaster' and 'postmaster', who have to deal with requests from customers and feedback from key institutions like ARIN and RIPE or domain registrars. Spamming those accounts has several drawbacks for a spammer, their spam is most definitely not wanted by the recipient. It isn't too farfetched to state that online businesses (that mostly have to rely on e-mail for direct customer contact) might be facing increasing difficulties coping with the loss incurred by spam, both technically and financially.

Link (via /.)

Stop Spam by charging to email?

Stop Spam by charging to email? 12/12/2003 12:52 PM

You get all the email you can handle -
and all the spam you deserve

You get all the email you can handle -
and all the spam you deserve 01/16/2004 11:03 AM
Janka speaks of spam, everyones' favourite subject. I got 4700 filtered spam messages in six weeks (and a bunch that got through). On one account. More on others, to a perhaps of 6000-7000 messages total. That's about a thousand a week, or 150/day.

There's a theory that everyone gets the amount of spam they deserve. There's also a theory that suggests that if you stop receiving spam, you don't exist any more. Or that if you read aloud all the spam you receive for a year and a day, you will be granted three wishes by the Xanax fairy. I believe that one of them must have something to do with the size of your penis, though.

Whatever the case, it has been suggested that everyone always gets more email than what they can handle - I've heard people complain that "I got FOUR emails today - I'm swamped". I get perhaps fifty legitimate emails on the average (not counting mailing lists), and I think that's about the limit I can handle. Is there anyone out there who thinks they are getting too few emails?

My ISP Said A Link Request Email Was
Spam

My ISP Said A Link Request Email Was
Spam 12/24/2004 12:32 PM
"...So now my ISP sent me a warning saying that they will terminate the account if they get another report."

DevArticles: Email Without the Side of
Spam

DevArticles: Email Without the Side of
Spam 03/19/2003 10:24 PM
If you're working on a site that posts personal information out there on the web - beware! There are any number of spambots and programs out there that work to search through pages and find anything that even vaugely looks like an email address and add it to it's arsenal. Thankfully, there are articles like this one from DevArticles that show you how to protect your users.

Forty Percent of All Email is Spam

Forty Percent of All Email is Spam 03/13/2003 10:16 AM

Flood of spam hit 92.5% of email in
August

Flood of spam hit 92.5% of email in
August 09/02/2004 09:24 PM

Setting up an Email Gateway to Block
Spam

Setting up an Email Gateway to Block
Spam 04/26/2004 07:39 AM

DNA Sequencing Technique Fights Spam
Email

DNA Sequencing Technique Fights Spam
Email 08/22/2004 03:16 PM
What's impressive is that an algorithm named Chung-Kwei (after a feng-shui talisman that protects the home against evil spirits) can catch nearly 97 per cent of spam. What's even more surprising is it wasn't developed for fighting unsolicited email -- it was created to analyze DNA and amino acid sequences for recurring patterns, which often indicate genetic structures that have an important role.

Chung-Kwei is based on the Teiresias algorithm, developed by the bioinformatics research group at IBM's Thomas J Watson Research Center in New York, US. Instead of chains of characters representing DNA sequences, the research group fed the algorithm 65,000 examples of known spam. Each email was treated as a long, DNA-like chain of characters. Teiresias identified six million recurring patterns in this collection, such as "Viagra".

IBM intends to include Chung-Kwei in its commercial product, SpamGuru. Justin Mason, who developed SpamAssassin, one of the most popular open-source anti-spam filters, says that Chung-Kwei looks promising.

"I think there is still a lot of work to be done. But what is exciting is not the particular algorithm, but the fact that IBM has shown there is the entire field of bioinformatics techniques to explore in the fight against spam."

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Minnesota Senator Says Email Tax Might
Reduce Spam

Minnesota Senator Says Email Tax Might
Reduce Spam 11/19/2003 10:32 AM

Get Rid Of Spam By Moving Email To A
Walled Garden

Get Rid Of Spam By Moving Email To A
Walled Garden 09/10/2004 01:18 PM
The folks at Techworld are having fun this morning making fun of a new "not email" system called "dmail" (for digital mail) which is basically a closed off system that only allows messages to pass between dmail users. In other words, just another closed garden. The Techworld explanation of the service is quite funny, including noting that there's already another product called Dmail out there, but the dmail folks insist there's no problem since Dmail is an email product, and they claim dmail isn't email. They also point out that the other Dmail uses a capital "D" so there absolutley couldn't be any trademark infringement (yeah, right). Techworld, as you might imagine, isn't that enthusiastic about dmail's chances.

Email gateway products get smart with
spam

Email gateway products get smart with
spam 05/25/2004 01:14 PM
ZDNet UK May 25 2004 5:20PM GMT
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Bagley: Greylisting for Exim 4

Bagley: Greylisting for Exim 4 08/02/2004 08:31 AM
New release: 0.02

GLD (Greylisting daemon for Postfix)
multiple vulnerabilities.

GLD (Greylisting daemon for Postfix)
multiple vulnerabilities. 04/13/2005 12:03 PM
Posted by dong-hun you, Apr 11 2005

Microsoft Working On Greylisting
Anti-Spam Solution

Microsoft Working On Greylisting
Anti-Spam Solution 12/26/2003 02:55 PM
While others are saying that the only way to stop spam is to make people pay for email, others are coming up with slightly more creative solutions. Realizing that having people actually pay money to send emails brings up a lot of other problems, it appears that Microsoft is picking up on the idea of greylisting by creating their own style of spam delay technology called "Penny Black". The idea is that if you're sending email from an unrecognized location, the server will slow your machine down temporarily, making it much more expensive for the spammer - who needs to get more machines and more bandwidth to keep sending out the same number of emails. Of course, these days, with spammers hijacking others' machines, they might not care so much.

Anti-Spam Website Greylisting.org
Rewarded with Ownership of the Domain
from OpenDomain.org

Anti-Spam Website Greylisting.org
Rewarded with Ownership of the Domain
from OpenDomain.org 12/22/2004 01:33 AM
New website explains and expands the highly effective anti-spam technique with information and resources. [PRWEB Dec 21, 2004]

Advance Communication Technologies
Announces the Integration of Greylisting
Technology to Their ThwartSpam Line of
CF Based Anti-Spam/Virus Network
Security Appliances

Advance Communication Technologies
Announces the Integration of Greylisting
Technology to Their ThwartSpam Line of
CF Based Anti-Spam/Virus Network
Security Appliances 02/01/2005 08:48 PM
The ThwartSpam EMSF-1 is the first compact flash based Anti-Spam / Virus network appliance to integrate Greylisting technology, providing an effective first line of defence against Spam, Virus and Phishing threats faced by organization everyday that do business on the internet. [PRWEB Feb 1, 2005]

MailScan for MDaemon v3.3.0

MailScan for MDaemon v3.3.0 12/08/2003 08:22 PM
MailScan for MDaemon is a proven antivirus solution designed to protect against email viruses and block spam. Situated directly on the MDaemon email server, rather than dispersed on each client computer, MailScan proactively secures the network by banning harmful email messages at the server. MailScan for MDaemon scans and cleans all viruses and worms on every component (e.g. HTML attachments, HTML scripts, S/Mime) in an email message. [Shareware $99.95 30 Days 8.35 MB]

MDaemon Server v7.10

MDaemon Server v7.10 05/12/2004 06:46 PM
MDaemon is designed to meet all your LAN and Internet Email needs using a single POP3 account. MDaemon comes complete with a powerful set of integrated tools for managing Email accounts and message formats. [Shareware $150.00 30 days 24.9 MB]

Mdaemon AntiVirus v2.2.3

Mdaemon AntiVirus v2.2.3 03/08/2004 11:08 PM
MDaemon AntiVirus will detect and protect you from infected emails. The Alt-N AntiVirus software integrates seamlessly with MDaemon and is powered by Kaspersky Labs. [Shareware $100.00 30 Days 5 MB]

MailDetective for MDaemon has been
released!

MailDetective for MDaemon has been
released! 08/14/2004 03:06 AM
Monitor mail usage and generate clear reports [PRWEB Aug 14, 2004]

MDaemon 7.0.0.j Beta Released

MDaemon 7.0.0.j Beta Released 11/17/2003 04:22 PM

Mail Access Monitor for MDaemon v2.7d

Mail Access Monitor for MDaemon v2.7d 04/14/2005 01:16 PM
Mail Access Monitor is a simple tool that analyzes mail server logs to show how much traffic is being used by e-mail, who sends and receives the most messages, where the messages are being sent, and more. [Shareware $199.00 40 Days 4.29 MB]

Log-Procmail-0.10

Log-Procmail-0.10 03/28/2005 01:36 PM

Log-Procmail-0.07

Log-Procmail-0.07 04/25/2004 11:31 PM

Log-Procmail-0.08

Log-Procmail-0.08 04/26/2004 10:12 AM

Log-Procmail-0.06

Log-Procmail-0.06 04/18/2004 12:24 AM

Mail-Procmail-1.07

Mail-Procmail-1.07 09/19/2004 09:59 AM

Mail-Procmail-1.08

Mail-Procmail-1.08 09/19/2004 09:59 AM

[Hat-Squad] Remote buffer overflow in
Mdaemon Raw message Handler

[Hat-Squad] Remote buffer overflow in
Mdaemon Raw message Handler 12/29/2003 05:37 PM
Hat-Squad Security Team (Dec 29 2003)

Remote buffer overflow in MDaemon IMAP
and SMTP server

Remote buffer overflow in MDaemon IMAP
and SMTP server 09/23/2004 01:06 AM
pigrelax (Sep 22 2004)

Mail Management With Procmail

Mail Management With Procmail 01/16/2003 06:15 PM
Tired of the sixteen terabytes of spam that confront you every morning? Looking for a way to automatically manage and filter your email? Say hello to procmail, automated message processing that's so cool, it makes you want to believe in magic again.

Email Security through Procmail 1.145

Email Security through Procmail 1.145 09/21/2004 10:48 AM
An email filter to block remote security exploits of email clients and worms.

TMDA Filtering via procmail?

TMDA Filtering via procmail? 03/11/2003 01:22 AM
Has anyone managed to write a procmail recipe that can effectively identify TMDA auto-replies? You know, the kind that say "To release your message for delivery, please send an empty message..." Having never used TMDA, I don't know what's commonly customized and what I can expect to see there. I note that the header has X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.62. Perhaps that's sufficient. :0 * ^X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA /dev/null Do folks commonly (or ever) modify their TMDA setup to get around the fact that...

Email Security through Procmail 1.144

Email Security through Procmail 1.144 07/29/2004 12:57 AM
An email filter to block remote security exploits of email clients and worms.

Mail filtering with procmail

Mail filtering with procmail 04/09/2004 04:09 PM
We've been using procmail for a few months to handle some mail processing for a project. It's really great, but...

Email Security through Procmail 1.140

Email Security through Procmail 1.140 02/12/2004 11:33 AM
Email filter to remove remote security exploits of email clients

Re: possible local exploit via sendmail
with procmail on solaris

Re: possible local exploit via sendmail
with procmail on solaris 12/24/2004 12:36 PM
Jeff Damens (Dec 22 2004)

Email filtering with Procmail +
SpamAssassin + ClamAV

Email filtering with Procmail +
SpamAssassin + ClamAV 02/10/2004 02:57 AM
We all get a lot of crap these days in our email and it's pretty much a necessity to have some form of filtering in place. So what's the best way to protect your inbox on your *nix server? Well, here's a quick and easy way to filter spam and viruses with free software and about an hour.

Alt-N Technologies Announces New Mdaemon
8.0; Latest Version Continues Tradition
Of Powerful, Affordable Email

Alt-N Technologies Announces New Mdaemon
8.0; Latest Version Continues Tradition
Of Powerful, Affordable Email 04/13/2005 02:02 AM
Alt-N Technologies, the premier publisher of email, groupware and fax software for the Windows platform, announces the product release of MDaemon 8.0. [PRWEB Apr 13, 2005]

Busting Spam with Bogofilter, Procmail
and Mutt, Revisited

Busting Spam with Bogofilter, Procmail
and Mutt, Revisited 03/08/2004 11:06 PM
Adjusting the macros to reflect bogofilter's reversed switches.

Yet Another antiVirus Recipe 2.1.2.3

Yet Another antiVirus Recipe 2.1.2.3 08/03/2004 03:37 AM
A procmail recipe that helps to filter out most common e-mail worms.

Email viruses are more annoying than spam

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