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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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A good way to spot it 2003-04-30
Herr Mouse
Hey! tell a house wife or mom of 4 kids that she needs to seek for "rouge processes" on her machine.. :> the problem is not the high-tech education, nor the spammers ... it's more and more USER FRIENDLY products incl. operating systems that are designed to be sold and handled even by a total illiter...

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