SpamAnti.net in September 2004

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CAN-SPAM Act sends more spammers to the Judge

This American law is used again to send spammers in front of their judges. The CAN-SPAM Act did not reduce the number of SPAMs in our boxes and other law texts are often used to try the spammers, but it gave a very clear signal of the will of American authorities to fight SPAM.

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92% SPAM!

Email systems (English company) just announced that during a few days in the middle of August 2004, SPAM rate jumped over 92%...

Sender ID incompatible with Open Source software

There already was a rumour about it, but the technology proposed by Microsoft to ease the identification of spammers appears fully incompatible with open source software development.

According to the Apache Software Foundation

Spammers adopt anti-SPAM technology faster than others

It appears that this is now observed with SPF (Sender Policy Framework). According to CypherTrust, SPAM messages use more often this technology intended to ease the identification of the source (it will help to find them and this is really important in the case of scams and phishing messages).

TheRegister

Sender ID incompatible with Open Source software (2)

This time, it's Debian which announced the technology proposed by Microsoft to ease the identification of spammers (Sender ID) is fully incompatible with the Linux distribution.

According to Debian

Compromised PCs on sale - Cheap!

"For discreet spammers, 20,000 virus-compromised PCs able to spit SPAM-on-demand: 2000-3000$." Here is what can be found on certain specilized forums. Avery good reason for Internet Service Providers to police their customers - looking for virus-infected PCs. And they should never underestimate the need to education?

Altospam for your servers

I couldn't test the product, but it seems well targeted to an externalisation of SPAM-fighting for small and medium-sized businesses: Altospam.

Sender ID incompatible with Open Source software (3)

All reports indicate that the IETF will probably ditch Sender ID - taking into account the barrage against Microsoft licensing scheme behind it - and shortly make a proposal for inclusion of SPF into the SMTP standard.

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AOL adopts SPF

...and simultaneously, we learned that AOL decided to officially reject Microsoft Sender ID.

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Beware CJB.net

This information is for you if you just came to this site through the old SpamAnti.cjb.net address. I learned that this free redirection service (that I used primarily before I got my own domain years ago), on top of allowing a simple web address (like SpamAnti.cjb.net) inserts advertisements.

Up to this, it's ok. But a few real crooks use this possibiltiy to force install a Precision time utility program that is actually a spyware from the GAIN/gator family.

If you came here through this old address, here is my advice:

• Start by removing the old address from your bookmarks and always use http://www.spamanti.net/en/ that is the only operating address from now on.
• You should also remove the Gator spyware from your system if it was able to install itself. Apparently, Ad-Aware from Lavasoftusa.com and SpyBot are able to do this removal and exist in free versions.

In any case, I immediately stop the redirection by cjb.net (I do not want to help distribute a spyware). Start using http://www.spamanti.net/en/.

I am sorry for this significant inconvenience it could have cause to some of my visitors.

Last update 28 September 2004.

Don't let them steal your email address

Christian Mercat advice was no longer available in SpamAnti.net; I just brought them up again (sorry for the long delay!). You will find them here.

Some older news archived at SpamAnti.net