Virus Bulletin Spam Supplement - September 2008


Editor: Helen Martin

Technical Consultant: John Hawes

Technical Editor: Morton Swimmer

Consulting Editors: Ian Whalley, Nick FitzGerald, Richard Ford, Edward Wilding

2008-09-01


News

Alphabetti spamgetti

Spam levels shown to depend (partly) on starting letter of email addresses.

Helen Martin - Virus Bulletin, UK

Prison sentence for phisher

Phisher goes down for seven years; youngster involved in scam escapes jail.

Helen Martin - Virus Bulletin, UK

Comment

The problem of backscatter – part 1

Backscatter is one of the hot issues in the world of spam filtering. So what exactly is backscatter? Why does it occur? How do we stop it? And why can’t we do a better job of filtering it? Terry Zink explains all.

Terry Zink - Microsoft, USA

Calendar

Anti-spam industry events

Must-attend events in the anti-spam industry - dates, locations and further details.


Virus Bulletin

Virus Bulletin - September 2008

Does the punishment fit the crime? (comment); Prophet and loss (malware analysis); All your MP3s are belong to us (malware analysis); VB2008 call for last-minute papers (call for papers); Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (book review); Malware teaching considered harmful? (opinion); Lavasoft Ad-Aware 2008 (product review)


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