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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 2003-05-01
Anonymous
Intrestingly, my work was attacked recently and the server admin password was changed. Last summer I'd got a new PC and there was no personal firewall installed by IT on it. After the server was attacked, finally personal firewalls were installed on the PC's.

I'd had an incident where the compu...

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