New surprises from ICQ-AOL
Looking in ICQ this morning I was surprised - in the first place in the contact list the group “Not In List” proudly flaunted in which there were several unfamiliar contact me. This was strange, since I have anti-spam enabled, and before that, no bot had broken through it. In addition, unlike the usual Kip's Not-In-List list, in which all contacts are marked with gray flowers - these showed real statuses, some even X-Status.
The antispam log showed that these are really spammers bots who sent me an authorization request with ads. The request was successfully eaten, but they got into the contact list. Then, bots began to catch up, prompting an advertisement not with an authorization request, but simply with a message - here the antispam is powerless, because it does not respond to those who are already in the contact list.
After a while, I deleted myself from the contact list of the sadly familiar 12111-ICQ System. This finally convinced me that AOL decided to bring a new present to users. The corresponding topic was found on the forum bale: forum.qip.ru/showthread.php?t=28002 so I realized that I was not an example.
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Here is such another "joy." As it turned out, gramilla had already written about this in Habré , but its topic was not understood (as it resembled the usual entry of an unknown user into the “In List” / “Not in the List” group on the client side) and was mined.
I really hope that the authors of popular clients will quickly release patches for anti-spam.
UPD: It seems as usual in ICQ the problem is irregular - for several hours the bots again quietly and imperceptibly get stuck on the antispam
The antispam log showed that these are really spammers bots who sent me an authorization request with ads. The request was successfully eaten, but they got into the contact list. Then, bots began to catch up, prompting an advertisement not with an authorization request, but simply with a message - here the antispam is powerless, because it does not respond to those who are already in the contact list.
After a while, I deleted myself from the contact list of the sadly familiar 12111-ICQ System. This finally convinced me that AOL decided to bring a new present to users. The corresponding topic was found on the forum bale: forum.qip.ru/showthread.php?t=28002 so I realized that I was not an example.
')
Here is such another "joy." As it turned out, gramilla had already written about this in Habré , but its topic was not understood (as it resembled the usual entry of an unknown user into the “In List” / “Not in the List” group on the client side) and was mined.
I really hope that the authors of popular clients will quickly release patches for anti-spam.
UPD: It seems as usual in ICQ the problem is irregular - for several hours the bots again quietly and imperceptibly get stuck on the antispam
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/38852/
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