China and its Relation With Spam

smooth wombat writes "Asia Times has a nice article about why China is becoming the spam capital of the world. Steve Linford, of Spamhaus fame, is quoted several times in the article and offers some insight into how the Chinese ISPs operate. Steves quote at the end of the article pretty much sums up why China isn't doing anything to curb the hosting of spam website servers in the country: "They simply don't want to know - China Telecom doesn't care because they're government-owned and there is no pressure coming from the government. Meanwhile, our statistics on spam volumes and the number of spammers setting up in China are going up and up and up.""

Comments

Here you go

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.okean.com/asianspamblocks.html - Detailed blocks so you get fewer innocents.

You misunderstand.

[pavon]

The spam is not comming from china - china is simply hosting the spammer's websites. Here is the spam ecology:

American spammers pay Russian crackers to write viruses. These viruses infect Windows machines across the world. The spammers use the zombie machines to send spam which link to websites hosted in China. This has been the prototypical arrangement for many years.

Re:Solution? Bounce with the 550 power.

[andfarm]

For what it's worth, the Chinese government treats Falun Dafa / Falun Gong the same way you'd expect to treat a militant group.

Re:RBL

[hackstraw]

uridnsbl URIBL_CNKR cn-kr.blackholes.us TXT
body URIBL_CNKR eval:check_uridnsbl('URIBL_CNKR')
describe URIBL_CNKR Contains a URL listed in China/Korea
tflags URIBL_CNKR net
score URIBL_CNKR 2.5

For SA 3.x.