rtroxel — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 16:22:37 +0000

Time for another update on Comcast spam. My last post was about six monts ago, and believe or not, the problem is still with us.

This time around, it's "nonsense email." If you're getting a lot of spam these days from people with odd names, with inane words in the Subject line, it's probably coming through Comcast, even if you aren't a Comcast user.

If you're in the UK, you should know that Comcast, along with AOL and a few other companies, has enormous backbone lines, through which pass billions of spams per day. This is largely accomplished through the use of "bots" which are surreptitiously planted on users' machines. (This is often done when the unsuspecting user clicks on an email message sent by the spammer.)

Comcast's spam filter, Brightmail, just isn't catching these things. Possibly the spammers are using the nonsense words so they can slip past the filters, but can't these messages be stopped by blocking the source; i.e., the IP address?

If you're a Comcast subscriber, you can check out
some recent discussions at their Email Forum.

If you aren't a Comcast subscriber, you can read a good discussion on the Broadband Reports site.

rtroxel — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 07:21:55 +0000

Today is July 18, 2005. Spam has flared up again on Comcast. I'm now getting four or five spam mails per day.

Is anyone else having this problem?