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New Sobig strain hijacks PCs to relay spam
News An open relay is a computer that accepts email bound for other destinations and then resends the messages anonymously. This is almost certainly being precipitated by a spammer that is trying to create more open relays to send spam," said Mark...
[June 26, 2003, 7:55]
Pfizer PCs used to relay Viagra spam
News At least 138 of Pfizer's IP addresses are being used to send the spam after being loaded with Trojan software, it emerged this week. Aside from Viagra, the spam advertises penis-enlargement drugs, fake Rolexes and shares, according to botnet...
[September 7, 2007, 17:51]
MessageLabs tagged as a 'spammer'
News Mail filtering specialist MessageLabs has come in for criticism after it was blocked by AOL's spam filters amid allegations that it had an open relay which was pumping out spam. He told silicon.com: "We have more than 6,000 customers, and every now...
[July 7, 2003, 13:51]
Email meltdown claims slammed
News Earlier this week Steve Linford, director of Spamhaus, warned that email infrastructures were on the verge of collapse because a new worm is forcing zombie computers to relay spam via ISP's mail servers.
[February 4, 2005, 13:10]
Asian spammers 'hijack broadband PCs'
News The other benefit in targeting home computers for spam relay purposes is that they are often issued with dynamic or changeable IP addresses… each time the computer is switched on and the Internet connectivity is activated, a different IP address...
[October 21, 2003, 9:30]
Spam: Still out of control
News Some American business owners, systems administrators and Internet service providers are banning all unknown email from entire regions of Asia, where they believe unregulated servers are being used to relay much of the spam traffic that both...
[March 21, 2002, 14:07]
Network administrators told to secure servers
News Servers identified in the campaign were collected from existing anti-spam blacklists such as the Open Relay Database and the Open Proxy Database. An open relay is a mail server configured so that anyone can use it as a relay point for mail to any...
[January 30, 2004, 14:05]
Trojan compromises email delivery
News Windows-based systems infected by mprox provide spammers with an open relay or "proxy server" for sending email and other messages. Most varieties of Randex affect Windows 2000, Windows NT and Windows XP systems, and according to security...
[October 15, 2003, 10:10]
One giant step towards ending spam
News Originally, any SMTP server would accept mail from anyone, for anyone -- known as an open relay. However, open relay meant that a spammer could connect to a random server and use it to send thousands of messages.
[March 17, 2004, 14:40]
Spam levels drop after plug pulled on hosting site
News Botnets are frequently used to relay spam, and McColo may have hosted some of the command and control servers necessary to co-ordinate spam campaigns. Internet hosting site McColo disappeared on Tuesday, and with it went thousands of pieces of spam...
[November 13, 2008, 8:08]
Spam blacklist to introduce fees
News The list, operated by Reynolds Technology, hosts several "zones", or lists, that are maintained by other anti-spam groups such as Spam Prevention Early Warning System (SPEWS), as well as its own lists of "open-relay" servers, but will soon only be...
[September 11, 2003, 13:15]
Spam: Out of the frying pan, into the fire
News Fri 27 June: Junk emailers are using viruses to hijack consumers' PCs and relay spam Spam-maker sues SpamArrest California juggles anti-spam bills Business email may escape spam crackdown Wed 02 July: The government's new anti-spam measures may...
[July 4, 2003, 11:01]
Spammers conscript home PCs to do dirty work
News Computers vulnerable to viruses could be more likely to download a program that turns the system into an open relay, for instance. The latest Sobig.e variant opens a series of five ports through which the virus downloads additional software to turn...
[June 27, 2003, 13:03]
Microsoft revamps Sender ID
Talkback This won't help because things still can get spoofed and it's a far cry from preventing systems getting breached and abused as spam relay hosts. Sigh. What it will do is increase management traffic on the Internet as well as adding more public info...
[October 26, 2004, 19:56]
Plug pulled on anti-spam project
News The general consensus within the team is that open relay RBLs [relay blocking lists] are no longer the most effective way of preventing spam from entering your network as spammers have changed tactics in recent years, as have the anti-spam community.
[December 22, 2006, 10:14]
ISMail
Downloads ISMail supports multiple domains, unlimited mail accounts, account quotas, mailing groups, anti-spam filters, anti-virus scanners, open relay protection, statistics, Windows Services, and log files. Mail server for Windows with ESMTP/POP3/IMAP4 and...
[June 20, 2007, 12:19]
Hijacked PCs blamed for a third of spam
News They don't know it, but their PC is being used as a relay for sending spam to thousands and thousands of other people. One third of all spam circulating the Web is relayed through PCs that have been compromised by Remote Access Trojans (RATs...
[December 3, 2003, 13:50]
US tops list of spam-offending countries
News It seems as though a major American spammer is arrested every other week at the moment but, despite these high-profile law-breakers being put away, the US continues to relay far more spam than any other nation on the planet," said Carole Theriault...
[October 26, 2007, 10:35]
Open Relay Checker
Downloads Site Features include : Open Relay Database, Open Relay Usage Articles, FAQs %26 How-tos, Closing Relays and Protecting your Mail Server, Anti Spam Tips, Public SMTP List, Server list updated daily. From the developer: "This testing tool allows...
[August 12, 2002, 17:23]
Tenon WEBmail
Downloads And like Post.Office, it also includes SPAM filtering and SMTP Authentication (to ensure mail server open relay protection, while giving authorized users world-wide access to the mail server). WEBmail is an easy-to-use web mail client that can be...
[June 14, 2004, 8:00]
