Virus and Spam Chapter Resources

Articles

• “The Rise and Fall of Albania's Pyramid Schemes,” by Christopher Jarvis
• “Blaster worm linked to severity of blackout” by Dan Verton
• “Computer virus infects Air Canada check-in system” Reuters
• “The Spread of the Sapphire/Slammer Worm” by David Moore, Vern Paxson, Stefan Savage, Colleen Shannon, Stuart Staniford, and Nicholas Weaver
• “Man cleared over porn ‘may sue’” by The BBC News, 31 July 2003
• “Spam: How it is hurting email and degrading life on the Internet” by Pew Internet & American Life Project, October 22, 2003
• “Why Am I Getting All This Spam?” Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) report on the origins of spam, March 19, 2003
• “Virulent worm calls into doubt our ability to protect the Net” by Rob Lemos
• “There will be an estimated 302 million corporate mailboxes worldwide by year end 2003 and Microsoft Exchange is estimated to power 35% of these.” Analysis by Research And Markets
• “A Plan for Spam,” by Paul Graham

Software

• Amavis, open source framework for email virus scanning
• Tripwire, open source file monitoring program for Linux (commercial for Windows)
• SpamAssassin, open source heuristic spam filter with Bayesian component
• Popfile, open source spam filter
• SpamBayes, open source spam filter
• Dspam, open source spam filter
• Bogofilter, open source spam filter
• SpamNet, shared spam tagging server
• TMDA, open source verified sender filter
• Maia Mailguard, web application for managing Amavis and SpamAssassin