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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 2003-05-02
Anonymous
Okay, let's look at the security models of Unix & Netware vs. Microsoft.

Unix & Netware:

By default deny all access

Microsfot:

By default allow all access

Over simplified, but I think the point is clear. Look at the starting point of each of these systems.

Now I wouldn't necessarily a...

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