Open Source Solutions for Small Business Problems
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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

















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