On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 07:19:21AM -0400, Curtis Maurand wrote: > > > > I would argue that its partially Microsoft's fault for allowing > scripts in email or from web pages to have access to anything on your > machine outside of the message viewer or the browser. ActiveX is not > your friend in these cases. > > --Curtis > > Dennis Carr > wrote: > > On Sun, 13 Mar 2011, Frank Bonnet wrote: > > > >> But to fight spam and all other malicious > >> > problems it's getting more and more sophisticated > >> and > complex to configure every day. > >> It is not a criticism it is > a fact that jump > >> to every sysadmin's face. > > > >> Does anyone has knowing of the future of SMTP ? > >> > Is there some project to replace it by some > >> more secure > protocol ? > > > > I, too, would have to say "no" > to this one. > > > > SMTP is used largely because it has > worked since the standard was > > implemented with RFC 822 back > nearly 30 years ago and it still works, for > > all intents, and in > fact does exactly what it says on the tin. So it's > > not SMTP > that's broken, it's pretty much a) the end users who allow their > > > machines to be zombied as a result of not exercising proper security > > practices, and b) the scumbags who actually generate the crap. > > > > The best we can really do is implement the spam blocks > for receiving, > > unfortunately, and continue the usual practices: > SPF implementations, the > > varying blacklists, etc. > > > > -Dennis > > > > > >
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