Been an interesting couple of months as I have been getting increasingly more and more email spam in my inbox. I have a script that eliminates 99.9% of the comment spam on this blog so now have been looking at a similar treatment for my email.
A lot of servers are hacked - I will see clusters of spam coming from the same subnet of an ISP or web hosting company. I found an application that allows me to scrape the email messages and write them to one big text file. I then use Windows PowerShell to extract the offending IP Addresses of the spammer and upload them to my mail scanner on my server.
Only problem is that this is like playing Whack-A-Mole as the spam is coming in from new IP addresses every day. Time to sign up with Spamhaus and get rid of the problem once and for all...
Script kiddies living in their mommy's basement.
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