Posts by Steve Basford

Dynamic ninjas kill off free DNS service

another free one bites the dust... see a pattern?

They did the same too... editdns.net

Government opens public spending database

BitTorrent links

I'm reporting them for Illegal downloading:

*****BitTorrent****** link to zipped 2009/10 Fact table, 67MiB (4.28GiB uncompressed)

http://data.gov.uk/dataset/coins

MS update gives some XP boxes the Blue Screen

rootkit ahoy

Systems with a rootkit seem to blue screen after the update:

https://patrickwbarnes.com/blog/2010/02/microsoft-update-kb977165-triggering-widespread-bsod/

Anti-spam smackdown finds best junk filter

Third Party Add-on signatures for ClamAV

Rich 2: well, yes, it would wouldn't it? It's an anti-virus filter, and NOT an anti-spam filter!!!

Correct.... but you can add signatures to ClamAV, using the ClamAV engine to actually detect spam....

In short...

Clam AntiVirus is a GPL anti-virus toolkit for UNIX and was *coded to detect email viruses*, it's scanning engine is very flexible and has been used to provide *add-on* signatures.

Sanesecurity add-on signatures provide enhanced email security against the following email types:

Phishing, Spear phishing, Fake lottery, Ecard malware, Casino, Fake jobs, Fake loans, 419s, Fake Diplomas, porn, emailed malware and other general spam.

http://sanesecurity.co.uk/index.htm

Cheers,

Steve

Sanesecurity