mbernste
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join:2001-06-30
Piscataway, NJ
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·Optimum Online
|  Comcast vs OOL
I have both a Comcast and OOL e-mail account. On OOL I have yet to get a single piece of spam, yet on Comcast I get 10-15 messages per day from these zombied machines. I don't see any postings about accounts being turned off due to zombied machines over in the OOL forum.
What is OOL doing that Comcast isn't?
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xdxdxd
| I dunno what OOL is doing differently than Comcast... Hey.. I don't even know what Comcast does, but I wouldn't be brazen enough to ask.. I'm sure it would make you cry...  |
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Rhobite
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join:2002-02-24
Cambridge, MA
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| reply to mbernste
The two have nothing to do with each other. This article is about Comcast customers whose computers are infected with trojans which send out millions of spam e-mails.
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SuperJudge
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Albany, GA
clubs: | reply to xdxdxd
They have a lot of things they do, I'm sure, that evade any issues regarding spyware, spam, and virii.
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mbernste
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| reply to Rhobite
said by Rhobite  :
The two have nothing to do with each other. This article is about Comcast customers whose computers are infected with trojans which send out millions of spam e-mails.
Actually it does. Since OOL's infrastructure isn't that much different from Comcast, one would think OOL, like any other cable ISP would have the same problem, but they don't.
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fantomposter
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Independence, OH
| said by mbernste :
Actually it does. Since OOL's infrastructure isn't that much different from Comcast, one would think OOL, like any other cable ISP would have the same problem, but they don't.
They block most of the common ports, incoming, that the open proxy abusers need to be open before they can use the infected machine.
Also some cable companies now block outgoing port 25, so that once the machine is hijacked the mail can't go anywhere anyway. Cox does. But close as I can tell OOL does not block outgoing 25. |
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Rhobite
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join:2002-02-24
Cambridge, MA
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No, this doesn't have anything to do with Comcast or OOL customers receiving spam. It's about infected machines that are SENDING spam. The amount of spam in your OOL mailbox indicates nothing. OOL does have a significant problem but Comcast is much worse due to the inaction of their abuse department. Here are spamcop's top 10 right now:
1 comcast.net 164810 0.991%
2 lacking dns 108510 0.653%
3 rr.com 69220 0.416%
4 attbi.com 37492 0.226%
5 gochex.com 28994 0.174%
6 mindspring.com 22299 0.134%
7 videotron.ca 20780 0.125%
8 shawcable.net 16100 0.097%
9 optonline.net 15684 0.094%
10 charter-stl.com 8045 0.048%
As you can see Comcast is an order of magnitude worse than OOL, but OOL is still number 9 on the list of top spam sources.
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raye
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join:2000-08-14
Orange, CA
| You need to include both "comcast.net" and "attbi.com" as comast owns both domains due to theri aquisistion of AT&T Broadband.
Comcast/ATT spam more than everyone else COMBINED.
My solution: »blackholes.us/zones/isp/comcast.txt
No comcast/attbi traffic allowed on my domain/network |
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redleaf
join:2000-09-12 | reply to Rhobite
Why no DSL companies?
Why are they all cable companies? Don't people with DSL get zombified too? |
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