Re: [PCWorks] Somebody faked my e-mail address
- From: Peter Kaulback <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:22:53 -0500
Clint, did you see the list for the top 10 spam networks?
Number 9, colo, was taken down as mentioned in the Washington Post
article. But at #5 is microsoft.com
Now tthe reason you have such high numbers outside the USA is that these
are relays for spammers. There is an isp near me with completely useless
security, it was so bad that it's clients were sometimes blocked by
other hosts, at one time I could ftp to the root of the web server and
into their network completely be accident. It's lame security like this
that enables so many relays to exist.
Peter Kaulback
Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin wrote:
> That's interesting, especially since the vast majority of my BS
> comes from places other than the USA! I'd say about 15% is
> from the USA, the bulk of the remainder from Ch*ina then
> Rus*sia. What is really odd, is this still happens even after
> I have billions of APNIC and RIPE IP addresses blocked, and
> only a few USA based IP's blocked! Ordinarily I wouldn't put a
> lot of credence into only one testing firm's findings, but this
> also agrees with the USA being the largest:
> http://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/countries.lasso
> -Clint
>
> God Bless
> Clint Hamilton, Owner
> http://www.OrpheusComputing.com
> http://www.ComputersCustomBuilt.com
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Kaulback"
>
> In case you missed this big piece of news about shutting down
> spammers
> http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/11/spam_volumes_drop_by_23_after.html
> and the decline in spam volume by two thirds.
>
> And, as it's been widely known for a long time the USA
> continues to be
> #1 source of spam on the planet. According to security firm
> Network Box
> the USA sends out 15% of all spam and 13% of all virus's, more
> than
> double it's closest junk mail rival, Turkey
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/29/botnet_spam_deluge/
>
> Peter Kaulback
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