Examining an Automated Spam Tool

Posted by michael on Tuesday December 9, 2003 @08:32AM from the processed-meat dept.

Saint Aardvark writes "SecurityFocus has published an excellent column detailing how spammers r00ted an Apache server, and used it to send spam. The tool they used is (I hate to admit it) pretty sophisticated: it has macro capabilities, picks up email addresses from and reports success or failure to the master server. It's a very frightening read...and so is this: Message Labs reports that they now intercept 27 spam emails per second, up from 2 per second this time last year. Virus-created proxies are mainly to blame."

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SpamAssassin makes me not care by jbs0902 · 2003-12-09 09:03 · Score: 1, Redundant

I know it is selfish, but SpamAssassin does such a good job of killing of my spam, especially with Bayan (sp?) filtering, that I no longer care about spam. It eats up some bandwidth, but I have so few email addresses and emails are so small, I'll accept it.

Now my main concern is not getting rooted (or the equiv').