, 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
2003-04-28
WarpKat at NoIntegrity.Org (2 replies)
WarpKat at NoIntegrity.Org (2 replies)
Take the spammers down
2003-05-01
Crypt0 tronic <crypt0tronic (at) hotmail (dot) com [email concealed]>
Crypt0 tronic <crypt0tronic (at) hotmail (dot) com [email concealed]>
2./ Windows is and always has been a pile of poorly coded, poorly implemented tripe. And yes, Virginia, it is less secure than other OSes, most notably BSD and Netware - and not because of the attention paid to it. MS OSes have been trivially easy to break into since day one.
3./ You'd better check the nature of those Netware "hacks" of the past. From NW 3.12 on, I think you'll find that most of them required an admin-equivalent password, or physical access to the server console. The code was and still is tight and almost bullet-proof.
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