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Article #2592Re: Worm and Virus attack
From: Frank Buss
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 23:04
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 23:04
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Jim Thompson <Jim-T@golana-will-get-you.com> wrote: > On the face of it, Challenge/Response sounds marvelous. Then you > realize it will sink the Internet with the traffic density going up > astronomically. Why? It sends only one mail for an incoming virus mail or spam. If the destination address is invalid and a response mail is received, I hope the program can recognize it, otherwise... > I think blacklisting ala SpamCop/SPEWS will ultimately settle the > problem. Currently I've installed SpamPal, but all theses programs are not perfect. The challenge/response concept looks perfect; at least until the spammers integrate it in their programs, but then you can enhance the challenge: I've read about a challenge, where the user must click on a point on an image and the position is described by text or a text, which is difficult for OCR programs to recognize, must be typed in a web form. -- Frank Bu�, fb@frank-buss.de http://www.frank-buss.de, http://www.it4-systems.de
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From: Frank Buss <fb@frank-buss.de>
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design,austin.internet
Subject: Re: Worm and Virus attack
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 23:04:59 +0000 (UTC)
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