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Spam prevention as security policy (was: Re: FWTK and smap/smapd)
From: jseymour () LinxNet com (Jim Seymour)
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 08:54:23 -0400 (EDT)
Devdas Bhagat <devdas () worldgatein net> wrote:
Message-ID: <20020718115002.B56864 () rivendell worldgatein net>
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(Hey, Spam is just unwanted crap at the application level, so you are on topic -- Application proxies do come under firewalls).
Probably meant somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but the IT Director where I work does indeed regard spam prevention measures as part of the corporation's security policy. Which may not be all that far-fetched a belief. We've received a number of odd bounce messages telling us about email, allegedly from one of us, that was rejected somewhere because the remote system detected Klez. Now being as we don't allow anything with *any* executable attachments through the mail gateways, I'm darn sure it didn't actually come from one of ours. Given the pattern of this (returns are all to role accounts published on our web sites), I rather suspect that a spammer that scraped our sites got infected. Anti-spam measures at the mail gateways, plus not allowing anything with executable attachment types (that we *know* of), helps protect us from those users that don't know any better than to not run such attachments and from brain-dead apps that run some stuff w/o explicitly being told to. Regards, Jim -- Jim Seymour | PGP Public Key available at: jseymour () LinxNet com | http://www.uk.pgp.net/pgpnet/pks-commands.html http://jimsun.LinxNet.com | _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com http://honor.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
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- Spam prevention as security policy (was: Re: FWTK and smap/smapd) Jim Seymour (Jul 18)
- Re: Spam prevention as security policy (was: Re: FWTK and smap/smapd) Devdas Bhagat (Jul 19)