The Continuing War On Spam
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Recently, Cynthia and I have been bombarded with a clever variety of spam that gets past our web host’s spam filters.
When you look at these spams in your email program, they look like completely normal ads for Valium and Cialis and so forth, with plenty of spam keywords, and it seems impossible that they wouldn’t be categorized as spam. However, if you look at the HTML source behind them, you’ll find some clever tricks to make the text appear readable to the human eye, yet completely obfuscated to an automated spam keyword filter. Tricksey stuff.
Anyway, I’ve installed Macmallen Mail Solution and SpamAssassin here and I’m forwarding all of our uvtek.net mail through it, which seems to zap the new spams. It’s pretty cool. And yes, I configured the Windows Firewall so it only allows POP3 on the local network and only allows SMTP from our web host. Ain’t no spammers going to be using my mail server for relaying spam!
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