stanley_qaz
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join:2003-03-17
Gilbert, AZ | reply to digiblur
Re: Cox email upgrades
Strange digiblur, We have 4 active cox e-mail addresses and none get any spam and we have the cox filtering turned off.
Perhaps you should be more cautious who you share your e-mail address with. |
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Fubar
join:2001-02-20
Phoenix, AZ
| said by stanley_qaz  : none get any spam Perhaps you should be more cautious who you share your e-mail address with. Then why are you trying to send a Spam report???
And no need to preach about whom to share your email address with.... |
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digiblur
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join:2002-06-03
Louisiana
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said by stanley_qaz :Perhaps you should be more cautious who you share your e-mail address with. You didn't read my post. Even the ones I didn't share with anyone. And no, they weren't real words as the email address.
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stanley_qaz
Premium
join:2003-03-17
Gilbert, AZ
 ·HughesNet Satellit..
 ·Cox HSI
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Then why are you trying to send a Spam report???
Because I have multiple accounts on other servers outside Cox and some of them are widely distributed and heavily spammed.
I just need to remember to set my mail program to use one of the other servers to send spam reports and bypass the Cox outgoing filters.
I'm still curious as to why some accounts seem to attract so much spam that they aren't usable and others don't seem to be targeted by anybody. Making it stranger 3 of my Cox accounts would probably be quickly found by a dictionary attack since they are simply names.
If sharing isn't the cause what do you folks think it might be?
I didn't intend to upset anyone by my suggestion, sorry. |
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robertfl
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join:2005-10-10
Mary Esther, FL
 ·Cox VOIP
| about 99 percent of them are dictionary attacks. until people learn how to use their windows correctly (and isp's stop offering such crappy protection) then the spam will be on the increase.
spam comes from computers just like yours that send this stuff.
-rob |
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stanley_qaz
Premium
join:2003-03-17
Gilbert, AZ
·HughesNet Satellit..
·Cox HSI
| As I mentioned my cox addresses should be very vulnerable to dictionary attacks but so far (over a year) haven't been hit, possibly cox had done something they aren't telling us about to prevent them?
So far the only address leakage we have seen is traceable to others that have my addresses stored on their computers. We react fairly quickly once we see a leak by turning the old address into a spamtrap and creating a new one as a replacement.
My computers aren't very likely to send spam. We normally run nothing but Linux here, much less hassle than Windows from a security standpoint. Also only a few of them are granted access to the Internet through a hardware firewall and even then on only selected ports. Only one machine gets to talk to Cox on 25 and it is fairly well locked down (Novell App Armor) even for a Linux box. |
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NormanS
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join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
 ·Pacific Bell - SBC
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said by stanley_qaz :If sharing isn't the cause what do you folks think it might be? Virus. You give your email address to your favorite Aunt Sally. She is a click-happy maiden Aunt who has never seen a link in email which she didn't like. She gets infected with "Klez", or the like. Virus scans her HDD for anything resembling an RFC 822 compliant email address string, anywhere on that HDD. Address books, message stores; anything at all. She has your email in her message store, and the virus finds it and phones it home. Spammer adds it to his "Zillions" CD and sells it to other spammers. You are now on your way to receiving 20-30 offers per day for pills, porn, and a cut of the money some Nigerian potentate is trying to move offshore.
A particular virus, I believe it is "Swen", has an affinity for news articles posted to any group on, 'msnews.microsoft.com', and tries to mail itself to the Message-ID strings of the articles posted there.
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