Oh, the irony! A spammer selling anti-spam services! //Alif
On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, R. A. Hettinga wrote: > Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 11:56:28 -0400 > From: R. A. Hettinga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: VeriSign service takes on spam > > > ...A whitelist for my friends... > > Cheers, > RAH > ------- > > <http://news.com.com/2102-7355_3-5250010.html?tag=st.util.print> > > CNET News > > VeriSign service takes on spam > > By Dinesh C. Sharma > Special to CNET News.com > http://news.com.com/2100-7355-5250010.html > > Story last modified June 28, 2004, 8:11 AM PDT > > > VeriSign on Monday announced a new e-mail security service designed to stop > viruses and spam. > > The service uses custom blacklists, fingerprinting and heuristic tools, > which calculate the probability that a particular e-mail message is spam by > examining a pattern of characteristics in the message. VeriSign's heuristic > tools use more than 10,000 rules to determine whether a message is spam, > the company said. > > For blocking malicious mail, the service deploys three antivirus engines. > For policy enforcement, customers can use domain-level filtering to scan > inbound and outbound e-mail. And a disaster recovery feature allows for > automatic switchover to VeriSign's network to provide SMTP connections that > queue e-mail, if a company's e-mail server is not available. > > > The company has begun free trials of the service, which will be available > on July 12. Pricing details were not announced. > > VeriSign said it plans to add more functions, such as verification of > sender identity and domain authentication. Domain names of all incoming > mail will be checked against the company's list of verified domains. This > list will be made available free to antispam software and service providers. > > Although e-mail has become a critical tool for business communication, it > is often saddled with problems caused by spam, viruses and worms. > > Last week, malicious software infected some Web sites, redirecting > visitors to a Russian server that downloaded software onto surfers' > computers. Some have speculated that the purpose of this malicious plan was > spam distribution. Recently, IBM introduced a security management service > to help businesses stop viruses and spam before they enter their networks. > > "The introduction of this service will help enterprises restore the > productivity gains from e-mail communication that are now under threat from > spam and viruses," Judy Lin, executive vice president at VeriSign, said in > a statement. "With a service-oriented approach, enterprises can easily > obtain comprehensive e-mail protection in a matter of hours, without > deploying any software or hardware. This service will enable customers to > rely on VeriSign's highly available and scalable infrastructure for > mission-critical functions." > > > -- Yours, J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] "...justice is a duty towards those whom you love and those whom you do not. And people's rights will not be harmed if the opponent speaks out about them." Osama Bin Laden
