Some Useful Terms

Spyware :
Programs that causes your computer to display ads even when you are not using the program in question for its intended purpose.
Spyware hijacks computers,secretly changing their settings, bauanges them with pop up ads, and installs adware and other software program that may cause computer to malfunction, slow down and even crash.

Phishing Attacks:

The fraudulent solicitation for account information such as credit card numbers and passwords by impersonating the domain and email content of a company.

SPIT

SPIT

Audio Spam over Internet Telephony. The users voiceboxes could become clogged with the unsolicitated Advertising messages.

The Solution is a filter that identifies calls likes to be spam, based on the frequency and duration of the calls and then removes them.

Microsoft Predicts Spam will be solved by 2006

Microsoft chairman, Bill Gates, predicted that the digital world would be spam-free in 2006. Gates made this prognostication at the January 2004 conference in Switzerland.

However, with just about a year towards a spam-free web experience, a lot of work has yet to be done. Today, 60 percent of all emails sent worldwide is still spam, according to a salon.com article entitled “How Microsoft is losing the war of spam.”

Ironically, according to the article, written by Brian McWilliams, experts are pointing their fingers at Microsoft as the root of the spam problem. It can also be the key to solving it, it was added.

Mr. McWilliams wrote, “Most junk email today emanates from Windows computers that spammers have hijacked and turned into spam ‘zombies’ using security holes in Microsoft's operating system. What's more, Microsoft is blamed for wrecking efforts this past summer to create email authentication standards. The company also stands accused of trying to neuter state anti-spam laws. And Microsoft has yet to win a lawsuit against a major spammer.”

Although, the spam problem should be addressed through a concerted effort by the government, the industry and the users themselves, experts still believe that Microsoft is in a position to totally eradicate spam, if only it had the will to do more.

But, why isn’t Microsoft doing more?

John Levine, chairman of the Anti-Spam Research Group, says Microsoft is acting as if software piracy were a much bigger problem than protecting users against spam and viruses. He recommended, “Microsoft should give away security upgrades to unauthorized users of Windows, even if doing so undercuts the firm's campaign against software piracy.”

Microsoft’s other crimes, according to Salon, are its lack of participation in the creation of email standards, and its attorneys’ inability to win a single legal battle against major spammers.

r we not making our project big!

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Vaishnavi Devi       

hi dha,
  Our idea seems to extend the project making it a great and very big and there creates a doubt whether it can be finished within the limited time.
I disscussed with the staff, he says to take 4 systems in the lab, 2 system will be considerd as the valid ip system and 2 other the system will be considerd invalid. ie if have to acccept mails only from valid system s and not from invalid. This sounds similar to sender id i think so. Then he says while designing phase study of all the existing ideas while implementing do this idea and if we finish this within time we can enhance further.
His point is should be considered coz as humans we will be using atleast 3 to 4hr completely for project. And i have to finish this within feb.
Now i am very much confused.Rather i am afraid whether i can be able to finish this (the reason can be said in phone and i am browsing from college) I think u would have understood.
dilse,
vaish.

bye,
~Vaishnavi Devi~