techweb.com — A Russian spam king claims to have the BlueFrog 'Do Not Intrude Registry,' and will publish it on the Internet. BlueFrog spams the spammer by sending do not intrude messages for you for every spam received. Blue Security's chief executive Eran Reshef claims that their registry is encrypted, and that it is an empty threat.
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peterr593May 3, 2006
It sure is on the right people, and it's not really a DDos attack. One way of knowing it's on the right people because they've been attacking Blue for the last 36 hours or more! And since Blue staff do their job manually, I'm sure are very careful which sites they send multiple opt-outs to. These are not sites of genuine businesses that get attention from Blue. They don't even act with regard to businesses who comply with the ridiculous US CAN-SPAM act.
mark1372May 3, 2006
You may not have received spam for a long time, but those costs for spam filtering get rolled-down to you, and spam has been steadily increasing (there was an article yesterday that stated it's not 80% of email traffic).Ignoring it allows the problem to fester, when it should be aggressively tackled on a legal and governmental level. Spammers have been winning for a long time, and they're still winning.
int19hMay 3, 2006
@birdwatcher3000"eye for an eye" would be to spam them back, not escalate the wrongdoing.
grawityMay 3, 2006
From yesterday I've got over 200 spam messages (normally there are around 20 each day). Most of them (about 99%) are catched by Gmail spam filter. And BlueSecurity site is unavailable, too. (server not found??)
shalowMay 3, 2006
my blue security icon down in the right hand part of the processor bar suddenly got an orange ! thingy on top of it, i double click it and it says, connection failed (doesn't help if i restart it) but i can still report spam :P
novion76May 3, 2006
A prior user posted this article on how bluefrog works, which was a very good read if you missed it, and might address some concerns<a class="user" href="http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/editorials/bluesecurity/">http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/editorials/bluesecurity/</a>As a user of bluefrog I can attribute to having received these emails. They were followed by junk emails containing nothing but what appeared to be excerpts from a book. They also gave out their 48 hour warning, but sent multiple copies within the next 12. Interestingly enough, I have not received another in the past 24 hours.When you join bluefrog, expect your junk mail to spike after a few days. However, after a few more, you'll see it drop back down, and perhaps go even lower than before. It is quite disturbing initially, but I believe it helps in the long run. Spam comes in cycles. Sometimes it's up, sometimes it's downI've spoken with members on the bluefrog forum regarding one particular problematic spammer who would spam me daily. One of the posters was kind enough to investigate it personally and managed to get the website shut down for awhile (until of course, it was re-hosted somewhere else). Oddly enough though, they managed to get that next website removed so that even though email spams were being sent out, the links to the site didn't work. I havent received spam from that site in easily 8 months now.Some of my emails on the do not spam registry of my same account are not being spammed by this warning message. Obviously if the spammers had really gotten the registry, I should expect to see notices on all three, not just one, email address should I not?It's a pretty desperate ploy, but I congratulate the spammer for actually producing a comprehendable counter message. Most junk mails are quite meaningless.I'm waiting for that 48 hour repeat email, or more of those random book passages. Haven't gotten more yet.Regarding bluefrog being under attack, it's possible. A few times yesterday my frog gave the warning message that it couldn't connect to the database but right now he's lookiing fine. In fact, yesterday his status was on sending opt-out complaints for several hours. Since I wasn't using my computer, I left it on for him to continue.I think it's a great piece of software, and hardly eats any system resources. The more frogs, the more power. Stick with itA prior user posted this article on how bluefrog works, which was a very good read if you missed it, and might address some concerns<a class="user" href="http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/editorials/bluesecurity/">http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/editorials/bluesecurity/</a>As a user of bluefrog I can attribute to having received these emails. They were followed by junk emails containing nothing but what appeared to be excerpts from a book. They also gave out their 48 hour warning, but sent multiple copies within the next 12. Interestingly enough, I have not received another in the past 24 hours.When you join bluefrog, expect your junk mail to spike after a few days. However, after a few more, you'll see it drop back down, and perhaps go even lower than before. It is quite disturbing initially, but I believe it helps in the long run. Spam comes in cycles. Sometimes it's up, sometimes it's downI've spoken with members on the bluefrog forum regarding one particular problematic spammer who would spam me daily. One of the posters was kind enough to investigate it personally and managed to get the website shut down for awhile (until of course, it was re-hosted somewhere else). Oddly enough though, they managed to get that next website removed so that even though email spams were being sent out, the links to the site didn't work. I havent received spam from that site in easily 8 months now.Some of my emails on the do not spam registry of my same account are not being spammed by this warning message. Obviously if the spammers had really gotten the registry, I should expect to see notices on all three, not just one, email address should I not?It's a pretty desperate ploy, but I congratulate the spammer for actually producing a comprehendable counter message. Most junk mails are quite meaningless.I'm waiting for that 48 hour repeat email, or more of those random book passages. Haven't gotten more yet.Regarding bluefrog being under attack, it's possible. A few times yesterday my frog gave the warning message that it couldn't connect to the database but right now he's lookiing fine. In fact, yesterday his status was on sending opt-out complaints for several hours. Since I wasn't using my computer, I left it on for him to continue.I think it's a great piece of software, and hardly eats any system resources. The more frogs, the more power. Stick with itBTW, bluefrog's blog is still up at <a class="user" href="http://www.bluesecurity.com/">http://www.bluesecurity.com/</a> along with downloads
finthemanMay 4, 2006
If anyone has the file for the windows installer BlueRCTSetup.exe file, can ya link it, I'll throw it up on a mirror.
mikemaloneyMay 4, 2006
That Russian spammer had his head beaten in last year by 3 young women (one aged 14) whom he picked up and brought home to his apartment. Rumor has it that they are now looking for "killthem" at bk.ru.
akinneeMay 4, 2006
The BlueSecurity site doesn't work at all right now... wtf... I really want this tool it sounds cool.
shalowMay 6, 2006
also they sent a load of extra spam that can be used as opt-out ^^