Security Anti-Spam - System Notes

The Art of Spam-Hunting

(A library of texts for the serious spam hunter) Mostly taken from http://samspade.org

Live Spam to test your skills onHere is some actual spam received that you can use to test your newly learned Spam Hunting skills on.

Spam fighting at abuse.net: Lots of good stuff hosted by abuse.net, the net abuse clearinghouse. Includes lots of ways of filtering spam of all flavours from your account or an entire site.
S.P.(U.T.U.)M.: Primarily about usenet spam rather than email spam. Well worth a read, particularly SpuTools�
Bill Mattocks hunts MrChicken: A great case-study in reading email headers
Tracking the source of email spam: Ed Falks fine description of what the different lines in an email header mean, and what to look at to trace the source of a spam
All about spam: Introduction to spam, and a few ways to reduce the amount you get
HOWTO: Good, short introduction to the basics of decoding headers and finding the right postmaster to complain to
Decoding JavaScript
How to deal with webpages obfuscated using JavaScript
The Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email: Lots of background, history and politics
Death to Spam!: Some good advice on retaliating against spam. Be very careful about threatening Denial-of-Service attacks against the host ISP, though. Doing it is illegal in most places, threatening it may be illegal in some.
Jason Walter, have a nice day!: One case study in spammer hunting.
Yahoo – spam: Lots more resources at Yahoo!
IP & DNS: A tutorial on IP addresses and domain name servers
traceroute: A whimsical description of traceroute
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Spam Tracking 104: A spammer unmasked

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