Re: [Asrg] Spam Ecomomics

"Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com> Fri, 31 December 2004 16:50 UTC

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From: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com>
To: "'ge@linuxbox.org'" <ge@linuxbox.org>
Subject: Re: [Asrg] Spam Ecomomics
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 11:36:18 -0500
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To be honest with you, I don't know the answer to that.

My personal experience has been far more text spam than app spam. As you
know, trojans are shipped over port 80 as well. I'm hit here more often than
not. The reinfection mechanisms are usually not smtp but ms exploits on
445/139 etc and are scanned and found using a variety of techniques
including http, icmp, and rpc.

That's a hard, but worthy, question.

-M
 
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Martin Hannigan
hannigan@verisign.com
Verisign, Inc.


-----Original Message-----
From: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
To: Hannigan, Martin <hannigan@verisign.com>
CC: asrg@ietf.org <asrg@ietf.org>
Sent: Fri Dec 31 08:29:51 2004
Subject: Re: [Asrg] Spam Ecomomics

Hannigan, Martin wrote:
> Sorry - Gadi, possible, but you're doing a good job explaining. I'm only
on
> my second cup of 4 coffees this morning. 
> 
> If a trojan is shipped in a spam, its still classically defined spam.

Nahh, martin, it is probably my cold effecting my mind. :)

What I meant by that is, that ther traffic that worms generate on SMTP 
along with spam, would consist of most of the SMTP traffic about. Would 
you disagree?

	Gadi.

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