China steps up fight against spammers

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Jun 19, 2007

Blacklist aims to reduce massive spamming levels.

Chinese web organisation the Internet Society of China (ISC) has announced the setting up of a central anti-spam blacklist, to allow service providers and filtering software to block known senders of spam.

The list already contains 100,000 known-bad IP addresses, mostly gathered via reports from members of the public, while a corresponding whitelist supports legitimate mail servers and ISPs.

A hard core of 906 major sources of spam has been made public, with their owners given a month to take action to reduce the flood of junk mail coming from their machines.

More details can be found at official Chinese news agency Xinhua, here.

Posted on 19 June 2007 by Virus Bulletin

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