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Re: Anti-Spam Router -- opinions?
- From: Matthew Crocker
- Date: Mon Apr 05 11:45:28 2004
On Apr 5, 2004, at 10:49 AM, Andy Johnson wrote:
Has anyone had any experience with this device? Turntide.com. Looks
like a
traffic-shaping device designed specifically for cutting down spammers
throughput to your inbound SMTP servers. My main concern is, how does
it
make the distinction between legitimate mass-mailings (e.g.: mailing
lists
such as this one), and spam? Interesting approach to killing spam
though I
must say.
Sounds like YABA (Yet Another Band Aid) solution for spam. If
rate-limiting the spam packets does an effective job at killing spam.
It will only make the spammers switch to a distrubuted attack method
using trojaned virus hosts sending 1 mail message at a time. They are
already doing this in some cases. SPAM is a living breathing entity
that can learn and adapt. The smarter the network gets at killing it
off, the smarter it gets in attacking. The evolution of spam/viruses
is astounding and getting quicker all the time. The turntide box may
be a good solution but it is expensive, I'll wait for the SNORT
add-on that does the same thing ;)
-Matt
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