Re: How Do I Stop Swen Emails?

From: Veronica Loell (lista_at_nakawe.se)
Date: 03/07/04 

Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 15:23:08 +0100

Tedd Riggs wrote / skrev:

> Sounds good to me, but according to the Anti-Virus and Spam blocker
> companies, 80% of the IP address's are forged and will not help you out.
> Some of them are not if the spammer is a amateur, but not so many of
> those around anymore.
> The SamSpade link you gave of course is a great tool. I use that one all
> the time.
>

I have not come across any forged virus-spam IP-addresses. A forged
IP-address would require the complicity of at least one mail serve due
to the challenge-response nature of the SMTP. Another way would be for
the originator to guess the challenge of the mail-server of course and
I'm sure that can be accomplished. I was under the impression that most
of the spam as well as virus spam is sent by turning someones machine
into a spammachine and by use of open relay servers and servers that do
not record IP-addresses at all. Or perhaps my understanding of the SMTP
is flawed in some way, I would be very grateful for any info if that is
the case.

- Veronica Loell

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