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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minas-beede

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

Qualification 2003-04-28
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Qualification 2003-04-28
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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 2003-05-01
GG

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Bill Kennard

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Mark Gruber

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

I beleive that we should have the right to defend ourselves. I beleive it should be legal for us to take the spammers down. It's not ethical for someone to spam, and if you're ignorant enogh to allow a spammer to use your server to send spam then you should learn a lesson. I think it's even better this way, security awarence should be enforced. Anyone operating a system needs to know that he's responssible for whatever comes out of his system.

I say ... take down the spammers.

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