‘Spam Buster’ unleashed by BT

[Bob Crabtree]

PRESS RELEASE

BT is taking a pioneering role in the global battle against spam by implementing the world’s first fully-automated ‘spam buster’ system to track down and tackle professional spammers and ‘botnet’-infected customers on the BT broadband network.

Around 80 per cent of e-mails on the internet, equivalent to 6.5 billion emails a day, are spam. These unwanted emails are not only generated by professional spammers, but also by ‘botnets’ - where the PCs of unsuspecting customers are secretly infected with rogue software to form a robotic network that generates vast quantities of unwanted spam. These compromised machines can be used in turn to attack other PCs and websites.

The new spam detection system selected by BT – Content Forensics™ from StreamShield Networks – scans millions of e-mails a day, providing BT with detailed reports on the location and size of spam-related problems originating from the BT network. Not only does the StreamShield Networks’ solution save time and resources by automatically identifying spam problems, it can prevent valuable bandwidth being wasted on unwanted spam and virus infected traffic.

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[paul1000]

Anything that helps cut down on spam has to be a good thing.

[Bob Crabtree]

Anything that helps cut down on spam has to be a good thing.

As someone who currently receives around 300 spam emails a day and has to use dedicated software to sort out that problem, I think that EVERY ISP ought to implement sophisticated anti-spam tools on behalf of its customers.

[snedger]

I would rather decide for myself what really is spam.
I've nearly lost important emails whilst "training" the Thunderbird email filter.
In the end I just find myself having to check the junked emails anyway.
If BT do not send on pre-determined spam emails then there is no way you can know when desirable emails are lost - unless someone phones to hastle you about why you haven't replied to an email.