Comments on: Why spamming is an easy business – and the problems it causes http://www.gfi.com/blog/why-spamming-is-an-easy-business-and-the-problems-it-causes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-spamming-is-an-easy-business-and-the-problems-it-causes Brought to you by GFI Software Fri, 13 Sep 2013 13:27:20 +0000 hourly 1 By: Andrei Zammit http://www.gfi.com/blog/why-spamming-is-an-easy-business-and-the-problems-it-causes/comment-page-1/#comment-4319 Andrei Zammit Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:14:57 +0000 http://www.gfi.com/blog/?p=1983#comment-4319 Hi, Leandro thanks a lot for your valuable feedback. I do agree with your points. I also do agree that the spam problem is not tackled efficiently because we do not implement the protective and preventive measures (such as those you mentioned; SPF and DNSSEC).

Regarding the China comment, in my opinion, there is no will from the Chinese government to halt or counter the spam market. In the past there were other countries such as Pakistan, India and ex-USSR which had the same attitude as China does today. However, even though there is still high activity in these countries, they did move forward to play their part in this global spam problem.

]]> By: Leandro Amore http://www.gfi.com/blog/why-spamming-is-an-easy-business-and-the-problems-it-causes/comment-page-1/#comment-4301 Leandro Amore Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:23:11 +0000 http://www.gfi.com/blog/?p=1983#comment-4301 Andrei, great article. But I don’t agree with your conclusion about China. SPAM is in great measure a technical problem, which can be avoided with the right amount of technology. We all need to put our defenses in place, take the SPF initiative for example. Almost no one is placing their SPF records in their DNS, and because of that the ones of us who are using the technology can’t enforce it to bounce servers that fail the SPF check.
It’s a free and easy to set up spam prevention technology, but the vendors never promote them.
On the other hand, we can use public key infrastructure for DNS in the new DNSSEC implementation but we can’t put a trustworthy email exchange system in place?
SPAM is really a bigger problem that it seems and lots of resources and efforts are being spent without seeking a permanent solution.

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