Blue Security announced today that they will no longer pursue their anti-spam Blue Frog program. See CastleCop’s Blue Security Forum for more information. If you installed Blue Frog you should uninstall it now.
Archive for May, 2006
The dust is settling, and now that I’m over the initial shock of the loss of my mail server, the lack of spam is quite refreshing!
I had gotten used to receiving hundreds of junk emails every day. I had programs and systems in place to sort, filter, and sanitize my email. It worried me when there weren’t a dozen spam messages waiting for me. Was my account working? Where’s the junk?
It’s amazing what we get used to…
This past week, when I’ve checked my email, I find messages from people that I want to hear from! I think I can get used to this.
Our email is still being Shanghaied by spammers sending “Nasty Grams” with our domain name forged in the header as the ‘from’ address. (Looks like this could be a long siege).
[edited: removed blue frog link as the frog is dead :(]
We’re still not able to get email sent to us at our domain. If you’re trying to contact me, check the “about” page for current contact information.
Thank you everyone who has contacted us regarding the spoofed emails being sent with our domain name forged in the headers. We too have been inundated with junk messages. While I would like nothing better than to stop this spam, the emails are not being sent from our server.
This appears to be the work of spammers who are not happy with the success of Blue Security’s Blue Frog Opt-Out Software. Blue Security has been under heavy DDoS attack, but the site is coming back up and “Fred” is reporting again!
See CastleCop’s Blue Security Forum for more details and ongoing news.
