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Email Warning Comes Under Fire
By WebProNews
Staff Writer
Article Date: 2005-02-04
A warning issued by anti-spam company Spamhaus about a collapse of email delivery systems has received a great deal of criticism.
The article, which can be seen here, claimed that the volume of spam, "coming directly from the major mail relays of other ISPs," might cause the email infrastructure to "meltdown". Spamhaus feels that infected, or, zombie computers have caused a critical increase in the amount of spam sent (worms are usually propagated through mailing lists and contacts of infected computers, making them zombies).
According to ZDNet.co.uk, the author of the Spamhaus article, Steve Linford, has come under criticism, saying his warnings were an over-reaction.
But vendors, who also claim to be able to solve the problem with their products, have attacked Linford over his comments.
"You report the words of Mr. Linford from SpamHaus about the email infrastructure being menaced and about to collapse," said François Bourdeau, director of marketing for Vircom. "I find this to be not very accurate. Although the zombie drone problem is very serious, there are solutions out there for ISPs that will minimize the effects of zombie PCs sending out tons of spam."
"There are technological solutions to the problem, but that ISPs need to take responsibility and use tier-1 solutions to prevent the problem from becoming overwhelming," Bourdeau added.
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