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Re: [Asrg] Software bashing [mostly OT, but on at the end]

2009-01-23 19:19:23
At 11:31 23-01-2009, Franck Martin wrote:
Can we get more info and stats on the correlation of spam and fingerprinting of the OS?

The following figures are not representative as the mail traffic is biased because of the user-base. About 60% of identified SMTP sessions are from Windows hosts and 99% of the messages they sent were identified as spam.

Now what happens to all the small businesses that use MS-Exchange to send email?

Either you discriminate against them and lose business or else you combine your fingerprinting with other heuristics to reduce its effect. Some MS-Exchange hosts are behind non-Windows devices and the OS won't be detected as Windows.

Regards,
-sm
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