, 2006-04-18
Botnets are a major source of evil on the Internet, from spam, phishing attacks, virus propagation and denial-of-service attacks to the stealing of financial information and other illegal activity. Does disbanding them raise legal and ethical implications?
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"Source" of evil?
2006-04-18
Matthew Murphy (1 replies)
Matthew Murphy (1 replies)
Stop the bots
2006-04-18
Anonymous (4 replies)
Anonymous (4 replies)
Re: Stop the bots
2006-04-18
Anonymous (1 replies)
Anonymous (1 replies)
Every ISP I've seen that does this requires users to use Outlook or Outlook Express's "POP Auth before SMTP" "feature". No other mail clients support this so called feature. This means that if you are smart enough to not use Outlook, or choose not to use MS products at all, you are penalized as a user.
The reason this does no good is the spam engine can just as easily make use of the local settings and the IE/OE DLLs to relay spam through the ISP's mail servers.
Realistically whats needed is not more vigilante efforts but better law enforcement and co-ordination.
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