nwrickert
sand groper
Premium,MVM
join:2004-09-04
Geneva, IL | reply to dibbb
Re: Question about anti-spamming
Many of the viruses contain their own smtp engine. They don't depend on using POP3 etc.
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dibbb
join:2003-09-19
 ·Time Warner VOIP
| said by nwrickert  :Many of the viruses contain their own smtp engine. They don't depend on using POP3 etc. Ah, OK - so I guess you couldn't just completely disable the SMTP protocol for everything?
I mean, I don't know what the percentage is, but I'd guess a high percentage of folks used web based email now instead of POP3.
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nwrickert
sand groper
Premium,MVM
join:2004-09-04
Geneva, IL
 ·AT&T Midwest
| Ah, OK - so I guess you couldn't just completely disable the SMTP protocol for everything? You could outbound port 25 connections in your firewall. Many ISPs are blocking port 25 connections to other than the ISP mail servers, as a way of reducing the impact of viruses.
Still, if infected, best is to clean out the malware. That's better than just blocking port 25.
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dibbb
join:2003-09-19
·Time Warner VOIP
| Thanks for the info.
I don't have any spyware on my PC, I was just asking in general as a way to *help* "cure spam", if everyone blocked SMTP on their PC (or however you'd do it), then spambots wouldn't work.
But I guess someone would have already figured out a way to do that if it would have done any good.
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nwrickert
sand groper
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join:2004-09-04
Geneva, IL | Unfortunately, there will always be naive computer users, who don't properly secure their computers.
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