Re: Whimper. Anybody notice huge spam jump??

All,

By the way, spam is NOT noticeably out of control on my Enkoder-
protected live web addresses. It's bumped up a little comparatively,
but not (yet??) in a way that makes me think they broke my code.

Kalonica

On Nov 14, 2006, at 2:21 PM, Kalonica McQuesten wrote:

> Marilyn,
>
> Are you familiar with the free Enkoder from Automatic Labs? After
> you submit info via an online form, it chunks up the whole shebang,
> mailto tag included, so that you have a javascript code block that
> performs the whole operation of a mailto tag, up to and including
> adding a subject line to the email, but it has a couple of
> disadvantages.
>
> 1. It's time consuming. I haven't figured out how to produce these
> pieces for multiple addresses at once, so, my legacy contact us
> page with 50 mailto-tagged addresses on it is still live. Sigh.
> 2. In a WYSIWYG web editor, you don't have any access to the
> accuracy of that code -- representing as a mysterious image in
> View, and as the impenetrable javascript in Code. One must test in
> a browser and email program to see if the email goes to whom it is
> meant to.
>
> Go visit and try here:
> http://automaticlabs.com/products/enkoderform
>
> Is that significantly different from what you're already doing? Not
> quite clear on your technique.
>
> As for the spam increase, I thought I'd just throw a link to an
> article my friend who reads slashdot pointed me to...
>
> http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/110806-image-spam.html
>
>>
>> What's With All This Spam?
>> Posted by Zonk on Thursday November 09, @05:28PM
>> from the pork-everywhere dept.
>>
>> coondoggie writes to mention a Network World article about soaring
>> spam levels, confirmed now by researchers, IT managers, and
>> security vendors. So, indeed, it's not just you: October was a
>> spammy month. From the article:
>> "Levine's assumption is this spike in spam levels is a result of a
>> new generation of viruses and zombies that can infect PCs more
>> quickly and are harder to get rid of. In its October report,
>> messaging security vendor MessageLabs says the spike is largely
>> due to two Trojan programs, Warezov and SpamThru. Others say a new
>> breed of spam messages called image spam -- messages with text
>> embedded in an image file that evade spam filters, which can't
>> recognize the words inside the image -- is responsible."
>> A note: I have no interest in penny stocks.
>
> Happy buttressing,
> Kalonica
>
> On Nov 14, 2006, at 1:18 PM, Marilyn Saarni wrote:
>
>> Hmm. Well, at $19.95 it would be worth it! Last thing I need is
>> to feel guilty about propagating additional spam to the innocents
>> whose emails are listed on my websites.
>>
>> However, I'm not seeing any current reviews online. Does anyone
>> know somebody who is using it now?
>>
>> Maybe we all can compare notes??
>>
>> - Marilyn
>>
>>> I've noticed it too. I am considering using SpamVaccine, which
>>> will encode all email addresses on a site with a javascript
>>> jumble of numbers and symbols. This might work better than the
>>> javascript you're using now since there's no text at all.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Aileen
>>>
>>>> Hi All -
>>>>
>>>> I have a favorite, easy-to-use javascript for email addresses on
>>>> websites that I have used for years without issue. I happen to
>>>> use it not only on the campus website that I manage, but also on
>>>> a non-profit's website. That particular website's emails are
>>>> actually aliases, so I get different information when that
>>>> website's emails are forwarded.
>>>>
>>>> Well, the spambots seem to be breaking through my javascript,
>>>> and forwarding garbage into these aliases--and in turn into my
>>>> own mailbox.
>>>>
>>>> I suspect that this is probably true for the campus website
>>>> javascript mailto: bits too, though I can't tell since there is
>>>> no forwarding involved. I'm guessing that the "mailto:" code
>>>> probably triggers the spambot software to run more sophisticated
>>>> analysis of the javascript to pull out the email address (the
>>>> javascript breaks up the email address into pieces in plain
>>>> text, and then reassembles it for display).
>>>>
>>>> There has been news already about the 20% worldwide increase of
>>>> spam over the last month due to these new spambots.
>>>>
>>>> Is anyone else having this problem? Any javascript mailto code
>>>> others are using without increased spam?
>>>>
>>>> - Marilyn
>>>>
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> University of California, Berkeley
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