06/17/2008

So I opened up my Inbox this morning and found 4 backscatter messages. 2 of them were out of office replies from Harvard University, my guess is some professors who are done with this semester. At first I was disappointed that SpamSentinel had missed this backscatter until I looked at my Lotus Notes Junk Mail folder, and found 440 messages stopped since I checked my email just last night at about 9 PM, about 12 hours ago.

It looks like I was the (un)lucky spoofed sender for a new email attack. I was lucky that we have the aggressive Backscatter prevention feature of SpamSentinel turned on, which stops almost all non-Delivery reports and other Backscatter right at the Domino server (see SpamSentinel 7.5.3.6 Aggressive Backscatter Prevention ).

Building this product for others is one thing, but using it myself makes it much more real, especially when I am the victim of the attack!

Here is a picture of my Junk Mail folder this morning:



So, if you still haven't tried the free Backscatter stopper for Domino, you can download it here and it will help block most of the Backscatter right at the Domino server:

http://www.maysoft.com/nobs