Vamsoft Backscatter Protection Agent
What Is This?
An External Agent for ORF that improves ORF with backscatter detection (requires ORF 2.1 or newer).
What Is Backscatter?
Backscatter (or "reverse NDR") attacks occur when a spammer sends large amount of emails in the name of your domain and your email server gets bombed by bounce reports (also called DSNs or NDRs) from legitimate servers.
Download
| File | Size | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| vsbackscatteragent-1.1.zip | 198kB | February 21, 2011 | Backscatter Protection Agent 1.1 |
| readme.pdf | 95kB | February 21, 2011 | General Information and Installation Guide |
Change Log
Version 1.1: Fixes a problem that causes the agent to report an error when processing emails with certain character encodings.
Upgrading
To update your version 1.0 agent, just overwrite your current backscatteragent.exe binary with the version 1.1 binary.