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Methods of propagation

Spam folder in the mail client Mail: E-mail The largest flow of spam is distributed via electronic mail (e-mail). Currently, the proportion of viruses and spam in general traffic, e-mail is on an estimated 70 to 95 percent . As spam is most frequent advertising unpopular products: rolex, viagra, etc. . Spammers collect e-mail addresses by using a special robot, or manually (rarely), using a web page, conference Usenet, mailing lists, electronic bulletin boards, guest books, chat rooms … This robot software is able to collect thousands of addresses per hour and create one database for further distribution by them as spam. Some companies only deal with the collection of addresses, a database and then sell. Some companies sell spammers e-mail addresses of their customers, they have

October 2nd, 2009

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Spamming in networking communications

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Communication over the network with advertisements (advertised address removed) Sometimes spam distribution network via the built-in Microsoft Windows SMB-service Messenger. These messages appear as pop-ups (unless a third-party software, manufacturing them in other ways). In this case, to turn off their admission may be, for example, to stop the Messenger service using net stop messenger [12]. In versions of Windows NT, beginning with Windows XP SP2, this service has already stopped by default, so this method of distribution are less likely to occur. SMS-messages Spam can be spread not only through the Internet. Advertising messages sent to mobile phones via SMS-messages, especially the unpleasant fact that they are difficult to defend. Collect email addresses Spammers find out the email addresses of users in different ways. Some of them

October 2nd, 2009

Make a list on spam risk

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Black lists

Ownership, use, efficiency
These include:
lists of IP-addresses of computers that are known to them being spam.
(widely used) lists of computers that can be used for distribution ? ?relei open? and ?open proxy?, and also ? lists ?dial? ? client addresses to which there can be no mail servers
(possible use), a local list or the list maintained by someone else.
(widely distributed through the simplicity of implementation), black lists, a request that is carried out via DNS. They are called DNSBL (DNS B lack L ist). Currently this method is not very efficient. Spammers find new computers to their goals faster than they manage to enter in the black lists. In addition, several computers, send spam, can compromise the entire email domain, or subnet, and thousands of law-abiding users for an indefinite period will be denied the opportunity to send e-mail servers, using a black list.
(found) lists rather preach radical theory (eg, equating to a viral malicious spam messages, etc.). Read the rest of this entry »

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