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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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Qualification 2003-04-28
Ryan Lambert
If you use Microsoft Operating Systems, what?

Properly configured AV/Personal firewall along with decent net-smarts should eliminate this threat. Don't blame this one on Microsoft. And let's not forget the recent problems suffered by the Open Source Community.

Need I refresh your memory for th...

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