Re[2]: TB phones home, sends spam?
Hello David Elliott, Wednesday, May 15, 2002, 2:04:01 AM, in a galaxy far, far away, David wrote: David Elliott I recently started to do some work for an ISP, David Elliott they gave me a brand new email address. I then David Elliott started to get SPAM that had been sent before the David Elliott address was active. The address had not been David Elliott published or used. The only way this could happen David Elliott was some one use the domain name and add in names David Elliott to that domain. David Elliott Don't blame The Bat! for spam. Spammers have a trick they now use, which works if they know the name of the default mail server of the ISP. They can send a message to whatever@mailservername and EVERYONE on the mailserver gets a message! The whatever can actually be anything they wish to type! This really sucks, but I don't know what can be done about it. -- Warmest tropical wishes, Spike -- Get a PERMANENT 100MB capacity mailbox for ONLY $29.95/year. No more lost mail due to mailbox capacity restrictions. Access by POP3 or Webmail! Earn a FREE mailbox with their referral program. (HINT - You get $11.00 towards your mailbox for each referral who signs up!) Apply NOW at http://1110.runbox.com -- Tired of getting every virus that comes along? Get The Bat! Virtually immune to virus attack. Does not use the Windows Address Book! http://www.ritlabs.com/the_bat/index.html -- Running The Bat! V1.60h on Windows 2000 Vers. 5 0 Build 2195 Service Pack 2 Current Ver: 1.60k FAQ: http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Bug Reports: https://bt.ritlabs.com
Re[2]: TB phones home, sends spam?
Hello Jonathan Angliss, Wednesday, May 15, 2002, 9:57:19 AM, in a galaxy far, far away, Jonathan wrote: Jonathan Angliss A common one is Undisclosed.Recipients@server name. I get about 7 Jonathan Angliss of those a day. I'm guessing depending on the mail server if you set Jonathan Angliss it to reject anything sent directly to the server name, it should drop Jonathan Angliss those mails. After all... why would legitimate contacts be sending Jonathan Angliss email to your server name, instead of your domain name? I'd have to Jonathan Angliss experiment with that one on my test network. The undisclosed.recipients usually indicates a the message came from a list of BCC's. This is still indicative of spammer behavior however! -- Warmest tropical wishes, Spike -- Get a PERMANENT 100MB capacity mailbox for ONLY $29.95/year. No more lost mail due to mailbox capacity restrictions. Access by POP3 or Webmail! Earn a FREE mailbox with their referral program. (HINT - You get $11.00 towards your mailbox for each referral who signs up!) Apply NOW at http://1110.runbox.com -- Tired of getting every virus that comes along? Get The Bat! Virtually immune to virus attack. Does not use the Windows Address Book! http://www.ritlabs.com/the_bat/index.html -- Running The Bat! V1.60h on Windows 2000 Vers. 5 0 Build 2195 Service Pack 2 Current Ver: 1.60k FAQ: http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Bug Reports: https://bt.ritlabs.com
Re[2]: TB phones home, sends spam?
On Wednesday, May 15, 2002, 9:11:30 AM, Peter Palmreuther wrote: PP To the 'The Bat! is phoning home and causing UCE' problem: TB! is PP _not_ phoning home (have tested this with network capture!) and it PP seems you (ztrader) in fact only got the 'welcome' message, PP hardcoded into the program. Thanks much for the explanation for how it got there. My confidence in TB privacy protection has gone back up. :-) It might be better if there was a mention of this in the 'welcome note', to take care of the worries of us paranoid people. ztrader Current Ver: 1.60k FAQ: http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Bug Reports: https://bt.ritlabs.com
