Image Spam- Antivirus companies cant handle image spam

Image spam-what is image spam

Image spam typically refers to email spam where the "text" in the email is actually image spam, where the email consist of a single link to the image, which consists of a spam message

Image spam makes keyword based spam prevention techniques obsolete

Image spams consist of no keywords, in fact,email spams consist of no text except a typical link to a spam image

Image spam is undetectable by standard email spam detection techniques, since email spam detection techniques rely typically on keywords in the email, and image spam have almost no keywords to analyze

Image spam leaves antivirus and anti-spam software useless

Due to the inherent features of image spam, antivirus and anti-spam software are rendered useless by image spam and antivirus software companies such as Symantec are almost clueless about detecting image spam

Ways to combat image spam

Some ways for antivirus software companies to combat image spam

• Image spam combat using CAPTCHA technologies.This anti image spam technique needs to utilized by email vendors and antispam software vendors.Captcha can combat email spam since CAPTCHA uses the funny wavy characters to distinguish between legitimate human sent email and robot based email image spam


• Image spam combat using behavioral anti-spam techniques-Antivirus anti-spam software companies need to use more behavioral anti-spam techniques to combat image spam to study the typical characteristics of email spam. This behavioral characteristics of email spam are then used to combat at least the typical email scams

Botnets- 25% of world's computers infected

Botnets could have infected 25% of world's computers on the internet

Botnets are the latest computer virus scourge to hit the internet. The botnet threat has been highlighted by even Vint Cerf, known as the Father of the Internet.

Botnets could take control of a quarter of the world's computers on the internet and launch a concerted malicious attack on a corporate or Government website. This botnet threat is incredibly serious and we are almost on the verge of an imminent botnet driven attack 

Botnets such as Spam Thru make the detection and removal of botnets incredibly difficult

Botnets such as Spam Thru are capable of protecting themselves and prevent removal from the host computer.This botnet "intelligence" is the other scary component of this latest internet vulnerability- heuristic based antivirus software are just unable to detect or remove botnets from host computers

Botnets -What can we do to protect data centers from botnets

In the absence of good antivirus software to protect data centers from botnets, the only recourse seems to be to hope and pray that botnets are not targeted at your data center :-)

Spam thru Botnet- Biggest threat to cyberspace security

Spam Thru Botnet- the biggest threat to cyberspace security

The Spam Thru botnet is rumored to be the most powerful botnet launched on the internet. The Spam Thru botnet

Spam Thru Botnet has its own virus protection

The Spam Thru Botnet is so advanced that it has its own virus protection system.The Spam Thru Botnet uses this virus protection system to ensure that the Spam Thru Botnet remains the dominant botnet on vulnerable computers and other botnets on the same computers are made ineffective

The Spam Thru Botnet tested the vulnerability of cyberspace in end 2006

According to Mark Sunner of MessageLabs, Spam Thru tested the vulnerability of cyberspace systems and its own ability to hijack computers at the end of 2006 by launching a small version of a future Spam Thru Botnet attack . This Spam Thru Botnet attack caused a massive exponential surge in cyberspace traffic

The Spam Thru botnet is dangerous and points to a disturbing phase of world cyberspace vulnerabilities to virus attacks using the Botnet route