We’re just getting hammered by Sobig this morning. It got into a mailing list used by one of the organizations we belong to and we’re getting them at the rate of one every five seconds or so.
My Bayesian Outlook Filter is dumping most of them, but one guy here had Norton set to ask him what to do when it found an infected email — he waded through about 300 Norton pop-ups before giving up.
We’re dumping about half of them at the POP server via SpamKiller, Norton is stripping the attachments off the rest, and a combination of the Bayesian Outlook Filter and mailbox rules are keeping them out of inboxes. What a mess.
Microsoft: Bounty hunter: Considering they swallow $10 million in bad press for every Blaster or Sobig, this is quite a deal for them. "As the first part of the program, Microsoft (MSFT: Research, Estimates) announced two $250,000 rewards, a total of $500,000, for information that leads to the arrest of…
SpamBayes Outlook Addin: Here's a spam filter for Outlook that runs on Bayesian theory. You give it a folder of good emails (your inbox) and a folder of spam that you've collected, then let it analyze both. From then on, it will use this information to assign a score to…
McAfee Security - SpamKiller Anti-Spam Software: I don't mean to shill for anyone here, but SpamKiller has all but negated spam for me. Sometimes I get lulled into thinking that spam doesn't exist anymore, but then I go look at the SpamKiller trap and see hundreds of spams per…