Applying careful restrictions can seriously impact bogus and spambot registrations. One approach consists in the denial of registration from certain domain extensions that are a major source of spambots such .ru, .br, .biz, or freebase addresses such as “gawab.com”. Another, more labor-intensive, consists in manual examination of new registrants. This examination looks at several indicators. First, spambots often delay email confirmation by several hours, while humans will confirm promptly. Second, spambots will tend to create user names that are unique, and unlikely to already be used in the forum, preferring “John84731″ or “JohnbassKeepsie” to the much more common “John.” Third, using a search engine to investigate, one finds hundreds, if not thousands of profiles using the spambot login name, sometimes with the diagnostic spam post, or “banned” label. Thanks to Noticias de Hoy.
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How To Prevent Spamming
Saturday, June 6th, 2009What’s the Best Anti-Spam Software?
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009Spamnet is a spam filtering tool for Outlook and Outlook Express.Now it’s known as Cloudmark Desktop. It uses a unique community-based filtering process. It is a spam blocker that helps fight This filtering system relies on users to report about any new spam. Within minutes of a spammer being reported, the spammers are placed on a blacklist. At that point, no other member will receive that particular spam. Cloudmark also applies the same basic process to phishing email scams.