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You think that SPAM is distributed? I did so too.

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1. According to the article spam is distributed and sent from botnets controlled from McColo. Killing of such central point will make a control point to become distributed too.

   Posted by Igor — 15 Nov 2008, 02:06

2. Kind of hard to believe and... scary!

   Posted by Sergey — 15 Nov 2008, 03:39

3. And the guys controlling these botnets are mostly Russians :(

   If providers would start blocking SMTP from home users to servers other than theirs, problems would be largely solved. This is what Primetel is doing.

   Posted by hazard — 16 Nov 2008, 01:35

4. We are doing that too Vlad. In fact checking our barracuda statistics since the shutdown of McColo, we noticed a 50% decrease in spam

   Posted by Andreas — 19 Nov 2008, 00:09

5. I see that many ISPs are blocking port 25 and public mail servers are migrating to port 26. Good that such servers are asking for authentication, but if viruses can control how users are sending emails then authentication won't help much. As well as nonstandard port.

   Posted by Igor — 23 Nov 2008, 05:36

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