Blue Frog was a
freely-licensed anti-spam tool produced by Blue Security Inc. and operated as part of a community-based system which tried to persuade
spammers to remove community members' addresses from their
mailing list
A mailing list is a collection of names and addresses used by an individual or an organization to send material to multiple recipients.
Mailing lists are often rented or sold. If rented, the renter agrees to use the mailing list only at contra ...
s by automating the complaint process for each user as spam is received. Blue Security maintained these addresses in a hashed form in a ''Do Not Intrude Registry'', and spammers could use free tools to clean their lists. The tool was discontinued in .
See also
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Anti-spam techniques (e-mail)
Various anti-spam techniques are used to prevent email spam (unsolicited bulk email).
No technique is a complete solution to the spam problem, and each has trade-offs between incorrectly rejecting legitimate email (false positives) as opposed to ...
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Collactive, founded by the Blue Security team.
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Malware
Malware (a portmanteau of ''malicious software'')Tahir, R. (2018)A study on malware and malware detection techniques . ''International Journal of Education and Management Engineering'', ''8''(2), 20. is any software intentionally designed to caus ...
References
Bibliography
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External links
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botnets and the
DDoS attack on Blue Frog, Oct 31, 2006.
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KnujOn– Another anti-spam service, "a multi-tiered response to Internet threats, specifically email-based threats"
Suspects in the DDOS attack
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2006 software
2006 disestablishments