Rise of the Spam Zombies

[Pieter_Arntz]

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.

Full article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/30414.html

[Detox]

In actuality; this may be (in the long-run) a good thing; as they turn toward illegal action maybe we can expect some more decisive action against them ???

[Pieter_Arntz]

Hi Detox,

That is a optimistic look at the bright side. :)

For now, I can only see innocent people getting knocked of the net by their providers, because they are spamming (without knowing it). >:(

Regards,

Pieter

[Detox]

Well that's very true as well; and I hate it because that's the kinda stuff that happens to people like my grandma who just don't know what I do about computers; much less the stuff some of the gyus hangin' around here know...

[root]

Web giants to declare war on spam http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/30422.html
{QUOTE-> Three of the world's largest technology companies -- Yahoo, AOL and Microsoft -- are to announce details of a major offensive designed to combat unwanted e-mail.
The initiative, details of which are expected on Monday, will see the three rivals cooperating and calling on other technology leaders to participate in measures aimed at checking the rising flood of spam <-QUOTE}
Maybe relief for some is on the way.
;)

[LowWaterMark]

Hmm, Yahoo, AOL and Microsoft to the rescue, eh?

Yeah, that's a very strange thought. ;D

[The Snowman]

Just wondering.........with the multi-millions being spent by governments.......with tons of new anti-hacking laws....an a spammer can't be tracked??

[Detox]

Good point Snowman; I woudln't think soem faked headers oughta be able to fool the gov't at this point in time... go get 'em boys FFS!

[The Snowman]

DAMN!! my mistake.....an my apology

[LowWaterMark]

Hey Snowy. What mistake? I see no mistake! ;)

All my best! :)

[The Snowman]

LowWaterMark

LOL.......very nice..LOL..........one Christmas present added to my list.......
Thank you my friend........

Snowy

[Detox]

errr I hate it when I miss something but I got no idea what the last 3 posts are about lol