Re: [Full-Disclosure] Backdoor not recognized by Kaspersky

[Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 11:35:17PM +0530, Aditya, ALD [Aditya Lalit Deshmukh] 
wrote:
> > My idea is that the MDA simply tag the messages, and that the MUA, either
> > localy or using some POP-like protocol, read the flag and, following
> > users configurations, either dump or accept the message.
> 
> anything that requires some things to be changes will not be accepted and 
> deployed quickly.

If ever, yes.
One of the advantages of the system I described is that it will work
even if you only deply it on a single MTA.
Small drop in the ocean, but should improve a bit.

> > This point comes to my mind after having serious problems with
> > ISPs rejecting emails that were destined to me, but were not
> > spam. Currently, I'm having serious problems receiving e-mails
> > from a business partner at Korea, cause the ISP simply decided to
> > drop all e-mails from that company's netblock.
> 
> this is where the blacklist are useful. a combination of spam 
> assassain+postfix+avir mail+tarpit is very good at keeping the spam out of 
> the system. if the compony is seriouly into spam filtering simply rejecting 
> is not the answer but rejecting it intelligently is the answer

My point exactly.

> isnt this therd going in places where it is not supposed to go ? smtp server 
> and spam issues, when it should have stayed in backdoors. is it time to kill 
> this thread ?

This kind of discussion has been going around the net for a long time
now. I'm sure we all see at least a thread like this every day, on at
list one of the lists we all subscribe.

And yes, you are right. Maybe it is time to kill it. I'm stopping here.

- -- 
Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
"Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur"
"Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns)

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