A large amount of spam comes that way. Also, networks of Trojan-infected PCs (a.k.a. botnets) are responsible (among other things) for the daily plethora of hack attacks on my FTP server. The constantly changing IP addresses are the giveaway.
Kevin Tubbs
IS Specialist / Maintenance Engineer
WSTM/WSTQ
1030 James Street
Syracuse, NY 13203
Desk: (315) 477-9425
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Hurne [mailto:bill.hurne@moody.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 1:53 PM
To: 'CRTech'
Subject: RE: [CRTech] junk mail filter broken
A question, anyone know if much of the Spam is sent by Trojans, unknowingly
installed on innocent computers?
Bill
PS. Thunderbird has this type of Spam tool built right in.
PSS. In Ohio, as in most states, spammers are liable for $250 for each
spam they send. Anyone feel like developing a tool that can really trace
the spam to its source (look beyond the headers). If so, I think we
should partner with a lawyer and start a new business.
Bill Brister wrote:
> I realize they need constant updating. Mine gets updated by Microsoft
> Update whenever they have one. Apparently Microsoft is way behind the
> spammers right now.
>
> Bill Brister
> Houston, TX
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Al Stewart
> To: CRTech
> Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 9:03 AM
> Subject: RE: [CRTech] junk mail filter broken
>
>
> Junk filters need constant updating ... spammers keep changing their
> words and spellings and collections of radom words to get by the
> filters.
>
> ------ At 10:39 AM 12/05/2006 -0600, Bill Brister wrote: -------
>
>
> >Same problem here. I use the filter that comes with Outlook and it
seems
> >more and more junk mail is getting through to the inbox now. The
spammers
> >might have found a way to overide the filters temporarily.
> >
> >Bill Brister
> >Houston, TX
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Scott Todd [mailto:stodd@kkms.com]
> >Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 7:53 AM
> >To: CRTech
> >Subject: [CRTech] junk mail filter broken
> >
> >Thought I'd ask those on this list who are using Thunderbird about this
> >first before I end up going through an hours long search and read on
> >their website. My junk mail filter isn't filtering anymore. Today I
> >had over 800 messages (accumulated from last Friday night) and only 32
> >of them legitimate email but I was left to do the deleting. Anyone
know
> >why this might have occurred? I've checked the filter controls and
> >everything seems to be set OK.
> >
> >Scott Todd
> >
> >
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