Re: How can we stop the flood of SWEN E-mail??

From: Lou Rosse (user_at_domain.invalid)
Date: 10/07/03 

Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 13:38:28 -0700

Phil Weldon wrote:

> Veronica, how few 'swen-mails' are you getting that you have the time to
> send these replies? And how few 'swen mails' would an ISP need to be
> issuing that they would have the resources to manually enter the information
> you provide, and then match internal records with the time and usually
> dynamically assigned IP address?
>
Reporting is tedious as hell, but it's the only solution for this.
Waiting for every ISP in the world to start scanning outgoing email, and
notifying customers when infection is detected, is going to happen about
when every ISP in the world starts detecting and nuking spammers
immediately. IOW, never.

I went from 50 - 75 / day last week to less than a dozen / day this
week. I spent most of my free time doing it, but, it worked. From
randomly sampling what I'm seeing this week, I can tell that it's new
computers. The computers I reported were either disconnected or cleaned.

So you have to do your part. Report. Or be buried today by all the
Swen you could have prevented by reporting yesterday. Report
immediately. Every minute you wait, another flood of infection goes out
from the undetected infections.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: How can we stop the flood of SWEN E-mail??
    ... Have you consider the differences between 'swen-mail' and normal spam? ... And the problem DOES have to be solved at the ISP level. ... a growing number of ISP's ARE scanning e-mail for virus infection. ... > Phil, reporting actually *works*. ...
    (microsoft.public.security.virus)
  • Re: How can we stop the flood of SWEN E-mail??
    ... reporting from the end-user level will NEVER be a solution. ... It is much more likely that a very large percentage of ISP and other e-mail ... infection - analogus to the epidemiology of small pox.) ...
    (microsoft.public.security.virus)
  • Re: How can we stop the flood of SWEN E-mail??
    ... And how few 'swen mails' would an ISP need to be ... Phil, reporting actually *works*. ... For an ISP is much cheaper to call one infected user and even help him ...
    (microsoft.public.security.virus)
  • Re: escalation of swen?
    ... My experience in reporting every infection to the offenders ISP has been ... It wasn't the ISP that launched the attachment on the other persons machine. ... receiving over 1800 a day, I wouldn't have the time or the energy to answer ...
    (microsoft.public.security.virus)
  • Re: Moody emails
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