/me Raises hand to both OE and hotmail. Of course, I've used a large mallet on OE's default settings, and the hotmail account is my disposable spamtrap...
To cut down on your spam, you could use an ISP that supports a block-list such as SPEWS. (No one knows/admits who SPEWS really is. This could be a picture: Is this SPEWS?)
There are many options for blocking, with links at SPEWS to lots of others.
I could perhaps see wiping the spam software and replacing it with an exe that plays the Millenium Falcon hyperdrive failure sound. Of course even that would be a computer crime.
Who knows, maybe one of the parents had something of value on that computer over the FBI's threshhold to at least look into it.
"Does anyone know of cases, where e-mail was used to install spyware on the client?
While some email can come with nasties to install worms and such, what I was talking about is a simple {IMG SRC="http://scummy.spammer.com/images/confirm.gif? 12345" WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0} where 12345 is an id tag which indexes to your email address in their DB.
I've also seen spam which causes a banner hit when opened. I had great satisfaction in reporting that one to the banner company!
It wasn't legit, it was spam. "just one more instance of spam -- which in some sense we were"
For what values of sense are we talking about? Take a look at GoogleGroups search of news.admin.net-abuse.sightings, and let me know how to your legitimate mystery shopper offer from all the others:
URL from Hell Quite a lot of it, isn't there?
Most spammers probably don't make a living at it. They keep going with the idea that if they can spam enough people, and if only a small fraction of a percent buy, they'll be $rich$.
"Let's see, if I spam a bazillion people and 0.00001% buy my penis-pills, that's a lot of quatloos!" (Some spammers make money by selling "millions" CDs to other spammers, frequently claiming that 26 million people opt'ed in to receive advertising from anyone who buys the CDs.)
There are a few big-time spammers that do make money (sadly) which only encourages the trailer-park trash types to give it a try. (My apologies to trailer-park trash for linking them with spammers.)
One other thing to look our for is HTML email (gack!) with loads an image from the spammer's site. There's usually some id tag sent with the image request so that the spammer gets confirmation on your email address just by reading the email.
Make sure that you either (a) Don't use Outlook Express, (b) failing that, TURN OFF PREVIEW, and only look at strange emails with Properties/Details/Message Source.
You probably don't want to try any of the remove links. I've been doing some testing with a hotmail spamtrap, and while some few actually seem to work, all rest at best do nothing, and at worst confirms that a human reads your email address to the spammer.
Port 80 and 25 are still blocked and the TOS still forbids all "servers".
Including the server that answers ping inquiries? It's a good thing that my computer doesn't answer ping packets then!
As for the web server, when I poke it out the firewall, it's usually on port 1214. Feeding a 404 to the Kazaa kiddies usually makes them confused and go away. Otherwise they keep trying every few minutes in bunches for days. The logs of what they request is sometimes interesting, and I've got IP addresses and aliases and stuff. (Hey Jack V, give me a call! We'll do lunch.)
** REQUEST from wpg-84-74-res1.mts.net **
m=GET p= a= u=/13501/X TV 07 (512x384 eng sub).avi [HTTP/1.1]
Host: 64.229.160.53:1214
UserAgent: KazaaClient May 28 2002 00:23:52
X-Kazaa-Username: Kiki
X-Kazaa-Network: KaZaA
X-Kazaa-IP: 216.130.84.74:1214
X-Kazaa-SupernodeIP: 216.191.145.4:1214
Range: bytes=166057465-230473369
Connection: close
X-Kazaa-XferId: 12233313
Does anyone know if "X TV 07" is worth watching? Does it have a plot? And Kiki, how's things in Winnipeg?;^) (Is being modded a bastard +1 or -1?)
I also deeply question your off-the-cuff nlogn value for spam. Let's just take my Hotmail account as an example. It receives roughly 200 spam emails a day. They average 8k each. So that's 1.6MB of spam per day per user. Now, there's 118 million Hotmail accounts. Assume that a mere 1% of them get this much spam. That's 1,888,000 MB of spam. Daily. To Hotmail alone. That's nearly 2 terabytes of capacity. Daily.
You get 200 a day? Wow, on average I get 20-30 a day and I Usenet post unmunged with it. Ah wait, I'm filtering Korea and a few keywords. And perhaps whacking a few spammers over the years has got me on some "Do NOT spam" lists?:^)
At least the $20's come with the "scratch'n'win" feature.
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Heh, was that intentional? Wasps and Dirac Angestun Gespt. [WASP is a book by Eric Frank Russell where Dirac Angestun Gespt comes from.]
I was using that as my organization for years on alt.religion.scientology before Co$'s local thugs tracked down the reference -- they actually wasted the time searching for it, which suits the tactics of Dirac Angestun Gespt just fine.;^)
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Darn, and I still haven't started on my CD gun. It's based on the toy "phaser" that shot those little plastic disks.
Finally a good use for all those AOL discs eh? (The power source is the problem. A spring just doesn't cut it for a 100 CD magazine.)
Prof Sharkey said: "Since the experiment went live in March they have all learned a significant amount and are becoming more intelligent by the day but the fact that it had ability to navigate itself out of the building and along the concrete floor to the gates has surprised us all."
And he added: "But there's no need to worry, as although they can escape they are perfectly harmless and won't be taking over just yet, just yet, just yet..."
No one who listens to CBC Radio "As It Happens" will know where Rotherham is unless you say how many miles away from Reading it is. (Running joke of many many years.)
Granted the data will be used to create a non-specific statistical model, but in order to do that, they'll have to collect data on individual phones. If someone has that data, how long before the police show up, asking that the where-abouts of a particular phone for the last three days be pulled from the raw data?
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/me Raises hand to both OE and hotmail. Of course, I've used a large mallet on OE's default settings, and the hotmail account is my disposable spamtrap...
"Welcome to your intranet"
There are many options for blocking, with links at SPEWS to lots of others.
I could perhaps see wiping the spam software and replacing it with an exe that plays the Millenium Falcon hyperdrive failure sound. Of course even that would be a computer crime.
Who knows, maybe one of the parents had something of value on that computer over the FBI's threshhold to at least look into it.
SpamFaq
You mean like this: The place to start? :^)
(You can tell which clans went for something on deep discount because the merchant couldn't sell it. Not even to the blind.)
While some email can come with nasties to install worms and such, what I was talking about is a simple {IMG SRC="http://scummy.spammer.com/images/confirm.gif? 12345" WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0} where 12345 is an id tag which indexes to your email address in their DB.
I've also seen spam which causes a banner hit when opened. I had great satisfaction in reporting that one to the banner company!
For what values of sense are we talking about? Take a look at GoogleGroups search of news.admin.net-abuse.sightings, and let me know how to your legitimate mystery shopper offer from all the others: URL from Hell Quite a lot of it, isn't there?
"Let's see, if I spam a bazillion people and 0.00001% buy my penis-pills, that's a lot of quatloos!" (Some spammers make money by selling "millions" CDs to other spammers, frequently claiming that 26 million people opt'ed in to receive advertising from anyone who buys the CDs.)
There are a few big-time spammers that do make money (sadly) which only encourages the trailer-park trash types to give it a try. (My apologies to trailer-park trash for linking them with spammers.)
Make sure that you either (a) Don't use Outlook Express, (b) failing that, TURN OFF PREVIEW, and only look at strange emails with Properties/Details/Message Source.
Saving the Internet from the Scum of the Trailer-Park Bottom middle.
Mozart wrote that a long time ago. He's still writing it...
Including the server that answers ping inquiries? It's a good thing that my computer doesn't answer ping packets then!
As for the web server, when I poke it out the firewall, it's usually on port 1214. Feeding a 404 to the Kazaa kiddies usually makes them confused and go away. Otherwise they keep trying every few minutes in bunches for days. The logs of what they request is sometimes interesting, and I've got IP addresses and aliases and stuff. (Hey Jack V, give me a call! We'll do lunch.)
** REQUEST from wpg-84-74-res1.mts.net **
m=GET p= a= u=/13501/X TV 07 (512x384 eng sub).avi [HTTP/1.1]
Host: 64.229.160.53:1214
UserAgent: KazaaClient May 28 2002 00:23:52
X-Kazaa-Username: Kiki
X-Kazaa-Network: KaZaA
X-Kazaa-IP: 216.130.84.74:1214
X-Kazaa-SupernodeIP: 216.191.145.4:1214
Range: bytes=166057465-230473369
Connection: close
X-Kazaa-XferId: 12233313
Does anyone know if "X TV 07" is worth watching? Does it have a plot? And Kiki, how's things in Winnipeg? ;^) (Is being modded a bastard +1 or -1?)
Ah well, you're probably getting Zathrus, Zathrus and Zathrus' email too. (But not Zathrus' mail.)
You get 200 a day? Wow, on average I get 20-30 a day and I Usenet post unmunged with it. Ah wait, I'm filtering Korea and a few keywords. And perhaps whacking a few spammers over the years has got me on some "Do NOT spam" lists? :^)
Bottom middle
In retaliation, we just make sure that hostile governments' email addresses get added to a few of those spammer "Millions" CDs. That'll fix them!
At least the $20's come with the "scratch'n'win" feature.
I was using that as my organization for years on alt.religion.scientology before Co$'s local thugs tracked down the reference -- they actually wasted the time searching for it, which suits the tactics of Dirac Angestun Gespt just fine. ;^)
Finally a good use for all those AOL discs eh? (The power source is the problem. A spring just doesn't cut it for a 100 CD magazine.)
And he added: "But there's no need to worry, as although they can escape they are perfectly harmless and won't be taking over just yet, just yet, just yet..."
Friends don't let friends date drunk.
-- Buddies Against Drunk Dating.
No one who listens to CBC Radio "As It Happens" will know where Rotherham is unless you say how many miles away from Reading it is. (Running joke of many many years.)
And I was looking forward to adding a 486/66 to my RC5 efforts! :^) (Hey, I need something to plug all my old ISA cards into.)
Granted the data will be used to create a non-specific statistical model, but in order to do that, they'll have to collect data on individual phones. If someone has that data, how long before the police show up, asking that the where-abouts of a particular phone for the last three days be pulled from the raw data?