How can I get some spam? {Scanned}

[William Curley]

For a test Virus email you can head to
http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm Industry has organized a fake
virus file that is detected by virus scanners.


Quoting "Michele Neylon:: Blacknight Solutions" <michele at BLACKNIGHTSOLUTIONS.COM>:

> > Want 13506473 bytes (and growing) of guaranteed-to-be-spam? That's
> > 1806 (and counting) separate pieces. I can gzip it up and
> > ship it to anyone who wants it. Not, mind you, that there's a
> > spam shortage.
> > It gzips down to a tidy 4193099 bytes.
>
> ROFL
>
> This must be the only mailing list where people swap spam and virii and
> compare they're quality :-)
>
> To test some SPAM and virus logging we used a few junk email addresses with
> a dialup ISP and used fetchmail to pass them through the system. The scary
> thing was that over 95% of the mail from one account was spam and virii!!
>
> M
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