News of the world
SPAM reduction?
Totally a surprise for me, AOL just announced that they saw a decrease
of SPAM in its filters during 2004. Has it been confirmed by others?
Is is the result of the actions (numerous and on many different
fronts)? To be confirmed.
The daily average number of e-mails blocked by AOL's SPAM filters
was divided by 2 to about 1.2 billion emails in late 2004 from a
peak of 2.4 billion in 2003. Failed attempts made by junk email
senders also fell to about 1.6 billion daily, from 2.1 billion in
2003.
Collateral damage
The fight against SPAM has not only positive effects and one may
see that some are unduly suffering. A
paper written about this important subject.
 "Nigerian"
in the slammer in Australia
Well... not really African, the Australian scammer trying to pull
a Nigerian 417 scam, was thrown in the slammer for 5 years and 3
months.
Of course, his ex-colleagues may ask for our help to free the millions
he left behind on a Swiss ban account...
Source: µ the
INQUIRER
Precision Time: It's a Trojan horse
Apparently, a number of visitors come to this wbe site looking
for assistance against and information about Precision Time. I can
confirm that this is a real Trojan horse from Gator (a dangerous
program hidden as something harmless).
Removal instructions:
The best spyware removal tool
According to ArsTechnica, it simply is Ad-Aware SE
6 Personal, as you will learn
in their article.
- informative
- fast
- effective
- free
From: 
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News of SpamAnti.net
Wanted: A Bayesian filtering solution for IMAP server
If you have information/experience about this, please
leave me a message.
 Make
love not SPAM
This is the Oh-so-cool name choosen by Lycos Europe
to push a new kind of a screen saver designed to attack web sites
of major spammers identified by SpamCop and others.
MakeLoveNotSpam.com
You dreamed of fighting back! It's time to act against the worst
ones.
The judges may not really approve it though. It is definitely a
distributed denial of service (DDoS).
(03-déc - 18h00: The web site is partly stopped, but direct
downlaods are still possible for
Windows and for
Mac).
(03-déc - 21h45: The reason for the web site drop out
is that an unidentified spammer tried to retaliate and hacked the
Lycos web site earlier today. The messages left by the spammer are
now gone, but Lycos only left an image on the home page; This seems
to be a first battle in a war between spammers and Lycos).
(06-déc - 20h35: the web site finally stopped completely.
Lycos probably decided to drop it).
Note : SpamVampire
does nearly the same (with the same legal issues).
Some older news archived at SpamAnti.net
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SpamAnti.net in December 2004
