[Setekh]

Not sure if you guys have heard about this. An Israelie anti-spam company, called Blue Security, has recently suffered a backlash from spammers. I use Blue Frog, their program, which is how I found out. See link below:

http://internetweek.cmp.com/187002776?cid=rssfeed_pl_inw

Blue Security, a Menlo Park, Calif.-based start-up,  debuted its registry and BlueFrog client last summer. The company's researchers, who work out of Israel, analyze and vet the spam, trace the message to a Web site (typically the site selling the product or service), and find a form on the site that can be used to complain or opt-out. The BlueFrog client then sends automatically fills out the found form once for each spam received. The result: the site is overwhelmed with opt-out requests or complaints.

"You are being emailed because you are a user of Blue Security's well-known software 'BlueFrog.' Today, the Blue Security database became known to the worst spammers worldwide," read the intimidating e-mail. "Within 48 hours, the database will be published on the Internet, and your email address will be open to them all. After this, you will see the spam sent to your mailbox increase 10 - 20 fold."

The message also claimed that "Do Not Intrude Registry" users are breaking the law, and concluded with "If you think you can merely change your email address and be safe while still running BlueFrog, you are in for a big surprise. This is just the beginning..."

[Bobboau]

this IS war.

[aldo_14]

If they carried through the threat, surely it'd just mean BlueFrog would be blocking more spammers trying to capitalize upon the db?

I suspect it's just a bollocks threat, though, and they're/he's trying to scare people by claiming to have the db when they don't.

[Grug]

Never heard of the software...

Wonder if they are Palestinian hackers?

[Setekh]

The software is pretty neat - especially if you use a hotmail, yahoo or gmail account (with which it integrates very easily). Worth giving it a go - I'd send you a link to more information, except most of their site is down from all the traffic they've received lately (DDOS or not).

What's interesting is that I think even I was hit by this. I typically receive 10-15 spams a day at my normal Gmail account, but yesterday evening I got home and found that I'd received almost 100 spams in the last 12 hours. What was weirder than that was that about half of that got through Gmail's spam filter, which rarely happens.

[Grug]

Funnily enough, gmail is the only account I get regular spam. My hotmail one seems fairly clean in comparison.

Makes me wonder about gmail's privacy statement sometimes. Maybe I should give it a more thorough reading...

[WeatherOp]

I don't get spam, besides the one from MSN wanting me to uprade my hotmail account.

[Bobboau]

I instaled the software, but I'm haveing a problem getting it working, I guess I have to wait untill the current seige ends, if they wanted a fight they ****ing found one!

[Setekh]

Yeah, it'll be a bit difficult to sign up when the site's down. But it's great, I protect 4 of my email addresses (you're entitled to 10 per account) and even one of my old addresses - which I abandoned because of the overwhelming spam a couple of years ago - is sitting pretty clean at the moment. I was really impressed by that alone.

[Bobboau]

they wouldn't be putting up such a fight if it wasn't effective software, oh, they are going to get it.

[Grug]

Viva revolution baby!

[aldo_14]

Viva revolution baby!

Wii?

[Grug]

Viva revolution baby!

Wii?

That too...

[Setekh]

Wii?

Oui?

[aldo_14]

Wii?

Oui?

Mais, non.

[Grug]

*Readies teh broom*

Stop it now or face the consequences.

[Unknown Target]

I use Gmail and used to use Yahoo. In the year or two that I've had my two Gmail addresses, I have gotten about 5 spam messages total. Yahoo was a bit more, and after I stopped using it, it went to hell, but it was better than MSN.

[Taristin]

I only ever really get spam from MSN, on my hotmail. Rarely one goes to GMX. But GMX's filters catch 99% of it.
IMO GMX has the best spam filter Ive seen.

[NGTM-1R]

Oddly enough my Yahoo account seems 100% effective at trapping spam...

[Turambar]

gmail is great for spam

and the only things i find in my spam folder are almost legitimate advertisements.  They have proper spelling, seem to be selling real products, and dont have those annoying strings of letters that i think they use to pass filters...