OT - Suggestions for dealing with spam

[Instar]

Originally posted by DavidG:

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Originally posted by Loser:

When I say feasible, I don't mean possible. Sure it's possible, but you'd have a hard time arguing that money needs to be spent there when it could be put to more useful ends.

Heheh. yea I knew what you meant. Guess I was just feeling argumentative because these spammers piss me off so much.

I wonder if anyone knows how hard it really is to find out the origin of spam? I know it's impossible for average joes like me but for someone with the right technical knowlegde...

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Actually you can usually find the legit sender of the spam (as they fake the "From" email address very easily. www.spamhaus.org usually has good guide to it I think.

[Baron Grazic]

Sorry Instar, I couldn't locate anywhere on that site, how to trace the orginal source.

For those people reading this that have Outlook or Outlook Express and are interested, you can quickly look at the history of any email by :-
Outlook - 'Right click, Options, Internet Headers'
Express - 'Right click, Properties, Details'

Reading it can be a little bit more tricky, but reading the Received: lines, will give you an indication of where the email came from, and you should be able to find the IP address.

If you have an email from PBW, you should be able to use this method to determine that the email came from PBW and not the hosts email account.