Ken Barber wrote: > Another item that has been in the security news in the last few > weeks or months: spammers are now using worms to infect machines > to send spam. Same thing: their worms install a simple SMTP > server on a 'doze box and the unsuspecting user becomes a > spammer.
I don't understand why this is in the news. Spammers have been enthralling zombie boxes for at least two years that I know of. But now everybody is talking about it. Whatever. > Since 'doze can never really be secured, I'm afraid this is going > to be an ongoing problem as long as millions of clueless people > continue using it on Internet-connected machines. The Reverse MX internet draft would go a long way toward curbing this. RMX is one of five or six new technologies proposed by the IETF's Anti-Spam Research Group [2] which collectively, if widely adopted, would make life more difficult for spam. But it'll take years, unfortunately. I'm looking forward to creating RMX records for the domains I administer. [1] http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-danisch-dns-rr-smtp-02.txt [2] http://www.irtf.org/charters/asrg.html -- Bob Miller K<bob> kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
