Here’s a bit of a twist on dealing with spam:

Blue Security analyzes the messages it receives from the users’ accounts (as well as all others who sign up), then follows the links inside the spam to (hopefully) the originating site where, for instance, products or services pitched by the junk mail are sold. There, forms are identified that accept text — an order form, perhaps, or a customer service form — and its fields are automatically filled with a message demanding that the e-mail account’s address be removed from the spammer’s list.

The first thing I thought was the form bot is running from Blue Security, but actually users download a Blue Frog client (Windows 2000/XP) which actually runs in the background of the user’s machine to launch the form calls when a spam is received. The source code can be downloaded and inspected and Blue Security says it is 100% spyware-free.

Bookmarked it, but haven’t actually tried this one. Anybody else try this out yet?

Did this post make you go hmm?

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