Rise of the Spam Zombies

Rise of the Spam Zombies
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2003-04-25

Pressed by increasingly effective anti-spam efforts, senders of unsolicited commercial e-mail are resorting to outright criminality in their efforts to conceal the source of their ill-sent missives, using Trojan horses to turn the computers of innocent netizens into secret spam zombies.

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Rise of the Spam Zombies 2003-04-26
minas-beede

A good way to spot it 2003-04-27
Alan (2 replies)

Any users with NAV2003 on it will have all their outgoing email scanned. If you see the popup in the bottom right going crazy scanning mail, be VERY suspicious. I saw some poor guy in an IRC help channel that said this happening, I guessed this was what was happening, now I've read this article its been confirmed. You should disconnect and hunt for rogue processes if this happens to you. Of course, if you have *up-to-date* antivirus it should detect it first.

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Qualification 2003-04-28
Anonymous (2 replies)

Qualification 2003-04-28
Ryan Lambert

Qualification 2003-05-02
Daniel Basse

A good way to spot it 2003-04-30
Herr Mouse

Rise of the Spam Zombies 2003-04-27
Anonymous (1 replies)

Rise of the Spam Zombies 2003-05-01
GG

Rise of the Spam Zombies 2003-04-28
Michael

Rise of the Spam Zombies 2003-04-28
WarpKat at NoIntegrity.Org (2 replies)

Rise of the Spam Zombies 2003-04-29
Anonymous

Rise of the Spam Zombies 2003-04-30
Jim (3 replies)

Rise of the Spam Zombies 2003-04-30
Anonymous

Rise of the Spam Zombies 2003-05-02
Anonymous

Rise of the Spam Zombies 2003-04-29
Bill Kennard

Rise of the Spam Zombies 2003-04-30
Mark Gruber

Take the spammers down 2003-05-01
Crypt0 tronic <crypt0tronic (at) hotmail (dot) com [email concealed]>

Rise of the Spam Zombies 2003-05-01
Anonymous (1 replies)

Rise of the Spam Zombies 2003-05-02
Anonymous

Rise of the Spam Zombies 2003-05-02
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