Re: Question about anti-spamming in Security http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r18475235 en Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:26:19 EDT Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:26:19 EDT Re: Question about anti-spamming http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18476364 nwrickert : Unfortunately, there will always be naive computer users, who don't properly secure their computers.
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AT&T dsl; Westell 2200 modem/router; SuSE 10.1; firefox 2.0.0.4]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18476364 Sat, 09 Jun 2007 09:54:17 EDT Re: Question about anti-spamming http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18475322 dibbers : 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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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18475322 Sat, 09 Jun 2007 00:02:05 EDT Re: Question about anti-spamming http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18475235 nwrickert :
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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AT&T dsl; Westell 2200 modem/router; SuSE 10.1; firefox 2.0.0.4]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18475235 Fri, 08 Jun 2007 23:38:53 EDT Re: Question about anti-spamming http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18475116 dibbers :
said by nwrickert See Profile :

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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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18475116 Fri, 08 Jun 2007 23:11:31 EDT Re: Question about anti-spamming http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18475081 nwrickert : Many of the viruses contain their own smtp engine. They don't depend on using POP3 etc.
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AT&T dsl; Westell 2200 modem/router; SuSE 10.1; firefox 2.0.0.4]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18475081 Fri, 08 Jun 2007 23:03:08 EDT Re: Question about anti-spamming http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18474626 Psicop : Very easy spammers have a "click on" detection system, which means that once you open their e-mail they know you are an active user hence you are on their spamming list.

A direct way is opening e-mail attachments.

I never click on e-mails of people I don't know of and when it comes to friends or relatives I delete the ones I know are used as part of social engineering tactics. Happened to me few times in the past but not anymore.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18474626 Fri, 08 Jun 2007 21:21:34 EDT Question about anti-spamming http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18474562 dibbers : This may be a dumb statement, but I'm curious.

I know a lot of malware installs bots on your computer, and those bots then can be remotely controlled to spam other people.

Is that correct?

If so, how does that work on people's computer who use web-based email? I mean, they're not using Outlook, POP3, SMTP, etc. So could those users just disable POP3/SMTP services on their PC and not be a spam zombie?

Does this make any sense what I'm saying?

Thanks!
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