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Re: beware of image spam on Internet ..

  • Subject: Re: beware of image spam on Internet ..
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 19:09:57 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: schestowitz.com / Netscape
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__/ [ Rex Ballard ] on Saturday 18 November 2006 18:52 \__

> 
> Doug Mentohl wrote:
>> " the new spam is sent as an image due to which this technique cannot
>> be used and computer security experts are struggling to cope with it,
>> reported the online edition of New Scientist"
>>
>> http://www.zdnetindia.com/news/communication/stories/161292.html
> 
> This has been a problem for about a year now.  The bigger problem with
> this tactic is that it quickly fills mailbox storage devices.  Some
> companies are now running random checks against any e-mail containing
> only an image file.
> 
> The other problem, which is much easier to manage, is spam that sends
> HTML which references images.  The good thing about those is that once
> they are identified as spam, they can be blocked at the link point.
> More important, if links are used on protected machines, such as Linux
> machines, for which access of this sort is not explicitly granted, the
> spammer can often be traced back to it's origins through the image URL
> referenced.
 
I hear all this talk about identifying SPAM and using filters, but why not
eradicate the problem at its root? Machines that are controlled by their
rightful owners are the reasons you can never stop all those relays.

Best wishes,

Roy

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