Archive for May, 2006

The Death of BlueFrog

May 26, 2006

With great sadness I must now recommend that you uninstall BlueFrog – the most successful anti-spam tool todate. So successful that spammers launched such large attacks upon its infrastructure that ISP where nearly crippled. Read the events that lead to Blue Security’s surrender here: http://bluefrogfreaks.blogspot.com/
Blue Frog did not fail – Blue Security did!
Maybe someone could [...]

Tags: Security
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The /3GB switch and .NET applications

May 8, 2006

Just flipping /3GB isn’t enough for most programs. It has the effect on the kernel, true, but unless your process’s executable has the Large Address Space Aware flag set, Windows won’t actually give you the full 3GB space. Link your executable with /LARGEADDRESSAWARE or use EDITBIN.
By default .NET 1.1 processes dont have the Large [...]

Tags: .NET, C#, Tools
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Im continuing the fight against the spammers

May 7, 2006

The anti-spam group Blue Security whos tool Blue Frog I use has been under severe attack from the largest spammer (PharmaMaster) in the world. This tells me 1 thing – its working. These spammers wouldnt waste the time, effort or bandwidth if Blue Frog wasnt hurting their businesses. After receivng serevals threats myself I thought [...]

Tags: Blackhole, Blue, community, DDoS, Filtering, Frog, Internet, PharmaMaster, Security, spammer
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