Overview of spam from uov.net

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 uov.net

Uov.net is "Upper Ohio Valley Net, Inc". They currently host a number of porn spammers as well as the "HipCrime" rogue canceller.

Ownership & Contact Info
Site history
Netnews Feeds

Ownership & Contact Info

Whois identifies Uov.net as

Upper Ohio Valley Net, Inc. (UOV-DOM)
   135 North 4th Street
   Steubenville, OH 43952
   US

   Domain Name: UOV.NET

   Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      Williams, James  (JW5008) Hostmaster@UOV.NET
      614-284-3296
   Billing Contact:
      Williams, James  (JW5008)  Hostmaster@UOV.NET
      614-284-3296

   Record last updated on 09-May-97.
   Record created on 09-May-97.
   Database last updated on 14-Jul-98 08:32:30 EDT.

   Domain servers in listed order:

   PDNS.UOV.NET                 209.37.153.4
   SDNS.UOV.NET                 209.37.153.5

Site history

NetNews Feeds

Uov.net receives netnews feeds from the following sites that I know of:

AT&T

To report spam, contact postmaster@uov.net

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 uov.net.
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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