On Sun, 06 Aug 2006 14:12:08 +0100, Roy Schestowitz
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>__/ [ catherine yronwode ] on Monday 07 August 2006 03:49 \__
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>> Spam filtering is something that must be effectively addressed in email
>> before we can convince google to deal with the content-spam pages that
>> have all but crippled their search engine's usefulness.
>
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>The two are very separable, actually. Plagiarism and SPAM are very different.
>Spam comment, on the other hand, is similar to SPAM.
>
>In most cases, in order to generate SPAM and spam comments (among other
>attacks, e.g. automated forums posts, subscriptions with links, Wiki spam)
>the attacker uses a network of bots. This ways the attacker attacks in
>proxy. Neither the victim nor the hijacker can be trivially caught. The ISP
>and the vendor or the faulty software are often on the clear, too.
>
>These bots are essentially Microsoft Windows boxes that have been hijacked to
>become an army of thousands, or tens of thousands (sometimes nearing a
>million, given enough botmaster, AKA 'Windows puppeteers') connected
>machines that can be run concurrently and be used for brute-force floods of
>SPAM (DDOS attacks included). Everyone is affected. Your address needn't
>even be public. If a friend of your has got your address in his/her
>addressbook in Outlook or Outlook Express, the address will leak upon
>hijacking. See, for example, some interesting statistics.
>
>More than 95% of e-mail is 'junk'
>
>,----[ Quote ]
>| More than 95% of e-mail is junk, be it spam, error messages or
>| viruses, report mail monitoring firms.
>|
>| [...]
>|
>| Further work has shown that most of this junk mail is originating
>| on hijacked home computers.
>|
>| E-mail security firm Return Path said 99% of the computers it monitors
>| that send mail have been taken over by spammers or virus writers.
>`----
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> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5219554.stm
>
>The Internet is doomed unless something gets changed. I actually wrote about
>it 2 days ago, in case you are interested and have some spare time.
>
>http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2006/08/04/windows-jobs/
>
>I'm sorry to sound so bitter, but the state of the Net is extrely miserable.
>Even Google has come to Microsoft's rescue, ironically enough...
>
>Google puts up 'Beware of malware' signs
>
>,----[ Quote ]
>| Google has started warning people when search results could potentially
>| lead them to malicious code.
>`----
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>http://news.com.com/2100-7349_3-6102529.html?part=rss&tag=6102529&subj=news
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>And Windows Vista might be even worse. Appended is a list that backs this
>statement, FWIW:
snip much vista stuff.
>Much like that vapourware that Microsoft calls Windows Vista. They called it
>the "most secure O/S ever"
That's Marketing doing their job.
> and it's already being cracked on a weekly basis.
and that's R&D failing in theirs. we live in a consumer society where
work has to be continually reinvented. These are the consequences,
nothing can ever really work, because if it did lots of people would
be out of work.
>It's not even known when it'll be released. Guesses point at a premature
>release in March or April. The high hardware requirements are good news to
>spammers. Greater brute force for targetted attacks.
All in all I'm glad I'm still with 98SE.
BB
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