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List:       inet-access
Subject:    Re: Barracuda Comments requested [short]
From:       Jawaid Bazyar <Jawaid.Bazyar () foreThought ! net>
Date:       2006-03-21 18:06:20
Message-ID: 4420409C.4050407 () foreThought ! net
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Great! Then the user's ISP is responsible for making sure they don't 
spam whether directly or through a virus-installed spambot. And that it 
as it should be - instead of making every destination on the Internet 
try to detect and filter it, each ISP is responsible for its own users.

That shouldn't be a radical idea.

william(at)elan.net wrote:

>
> On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Herb Peyerl wrote:
>
>> I generally believe virus authors and spambot authors are smarter 
>> than me. Having said that; if I were writing a spambot today, I would 
>> send the mail through my ISP's mail servers. I'm sure I could get 
>> that information out of some outlook config file or registry.  Sure, 
>> I'm not going to send a thousand messages per hour but sending a few 
>> hundred messages per day per each of my 50,000 spambots, is still a 
>> sizable amount of spam, is almost guaranteed to get to well-formed 
>> destinations, and is probably not going to arouse any flow suspicions...
>
>
> In fact newer proxies installed by zombies offer an option to do what 
> you described above. It just that it has not been used quite as much 
> [yet].
>

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