[arachne] Re: Spam news

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Hi Wiz,

> Please read the report sent to the list, then tell me and other
> dialup users how we are the primary culprits for sending spam!
> Again, I have been on dialup for many years in many different fashions, BBS,
> AOL, Freewwweb, OneNation, Juno, etc etc etc...never once was my dialup
> connection "hijacked" by a spammer to send unsolicited email.  What you
> are expressing is the "forged header information" that zombie machines use
> to make it appear that email is being sent by some user, doesn't matter whom,
> nor what connection is used.  Anyway, it makes no sense that a spammer would
> routinely use dialup, with a max speed of 53 kps, when they can use highspeed
> at 112k or faster, 1 mb/sec even, to send their garbage.  The name of the game
> for spamers is to send as much crap as possible in as little time as it takes.
> Then
> you hijack some unprotected PC, with the highspeed connection, and you can
> send thousands of messages in the same amount of time it takes dialup to send
> ten.
> I'm not referring to those trojan "dialer" programs...that's a horse of a
> different color!

> C U L8R!
> Wiz  <{;-)

like I said before, I am not talking about email Spam but about Spam in
web forums. And just as I said before, most of it comes from dynamically
assigned IP address pools. It does not cost much bandwidth to post a
message to a forum using an automated Spam robot, but the obvious
advantage is that it is hard to ban those spammers without banning the
whole ISP they come from. BTW, this does not mean they use low bandwidth
connections, but obviously they do not use machines that are connected
to the Internet all the time. They cannot use those "Zombie" PCs or
trojan horses for that purpose since they have to stay in touch with the
forums to check whether the administrator has deleted their posts.
Sophisticated Spam robot software can defeat any method designed to keep
spammers at bay, from enforcing registration to image recognition, and
automatically repost messages that have been removed, so it is hard to
do anything against them. Blocking key words and IP addresses is about
the only way to fight these spammers, so their preferred CCM is to use a
dynamically assigned IP address and then submerge again.

Regards,

Udo

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