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[News] 64.4% of E-mail is SPAM (Thanks, Microsoft!)

Old spammers learn new tricks

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| Spam Bot operations are increasing in particularly in South
| American countries where it is the favoured method of distributing
| bank trojans and phishing scams.
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Zombie PCs spew out 80% of spam

        http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/04/trojan_spam_study/ 

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| Four-fifths of spam now emanates from computers contaminated with
| Trojan horse infections, according to a study by network management
| firm Sandvine out this week. Trojans and worms with backdoor components
| such as Migmaf and SoBig have turned infected Windows PCs into drones
| in vast networks of compromised zombie PCs.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/04/trojan_spam_study/

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