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Rise in child porn spam expected
Most of the email samples clearly suggest that the content will be offensive with explicit subject lines. The email message invites the recipient to click on a link to view illegal material.
To get through email filters that might look for specific text patterns, the author of these spam messages appears to have used extracts from a quotation database, selected at random. Other tricks used to slip through the spam traps include using asterisks between letters in the email subject headings.
Sophos say that they have been passing details of the illegal and offensive material on to the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF). This is the organisation charged with combating illegal internet content.
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I was getting to the point I did not want my son to open his e-mail for two main reasons: the sheer volume of rubbish he had to look through EVERY day, and the content of the mails - it was upsetting and offensive. Some months ago I have installed Spam Bully (from www.spambully.com)on his computer, then I have enabled Spam Bully Child Mode filtering and now he receives emails only from friends and from users that have successfully responded to challenge message.It’s a easy to use and nice tool.. and I’m more confident now that he doesn’t read all the garbage.
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