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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)
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Anonymous (2 replies)
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A good way to spot it 2003-04-30
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Rise of the Spam Zombies 2003-04-27
Anonymous (1 replies)
Rise of the Spam Zombies 2003-04-28
Michael
Alan mentions the e-mail scanning function of Norton Anti-Virus as a detection mechanism. A better, preventive, solution would be the full Norton Internet Security suite or any other personal firewall product.

Not only would it block the incoming "random" port, but even if that failed, the Application Control feature would prevent the trojan from accessing the network and sending the spam mail.

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Rise of the Spam Zombies 2003-04-28
WarpKat at NoIntegrity.Org (2 replies)
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Jim (3 replies)
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