Overview of spam from IntegratedMicroSystems

15 Feb 2006

Note: Automated spam monitoring stopped several years ago. These web pages are maintained for historical reasons. Some may be updated from time to time as news about the individual sites becomes available.

No spam today

General information about IntegratedMicroSystems

Added 13 April 1998 due to excessive porn spam in Alt.sexual.abuse.recovery

Integrated Micro Systems is injecting spam via open servers at Keyway.net

Ownership & Contact Info
Site history
Netnews Feeds

Ownership & Contact Info

Whois identifies Integrated Micro Systems as

Integrated Micro Systems (NETBLK-SCAN-206-83-172)
   2677 Autumn Ridge Drive
   Thousand Oaks, CA 91362
   US

   Netname: SCAN-206-83-172
   Netblock: 206.83.172.0 - 206.83.172.255

   Coordinator:
      SoftAware Hostmaster  (SH47-ORG-ARIN) hostmaster@SOFTAWARE.COM
      (310) 305-0275, Fax- (310) 305-9165

   Domain System inverse mapping provided by:

   NS2.SOFTAWARE.COM            206.83.160.5
   NS3.SOFTAWARE.COM            209.85.1.2
   NS1.SOFTAWARE.COM            207.155.2.3

   Record last updated on 03-Dec-97.
   Database last updated on 10-Apr-98 16:08:48 EDT.

Site history

18 April 1998: Added to tracking list.

NetNews Feeds

Integrated Micro Systems receives netnews feeds from the following sites that I know of:

Softaware.com

To report spam, contact hostmaster@softaware.com

A complete history may also be available.

General notes:

Only a small subset of usenet (261 groups) was sampled. Only articles that hadn't been cancelled yet were counted. Actual spam may have been much greater.
Heuristics that detect single-posted articles are, by their very nature, somewhat shaky. Innocent articles may be tagged as spam because they share certain characteristics or keywords with actual spam. In particular, a posted spam complaint that includes the spam in its entirety will very often be identified as spam.
Some posts may be forgeries intended to look like they came from IntegratedMicroSystems.
The first entry in the history file is not used to compute peak or average spam counts, as this entry covers an unknown number of days. This may cause an apparent disreprency between spam totals and spam averages.

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