__/ [ Robert Newson ] on Wednesday 11 April 2007 11:08 \__
> Guy Fawkes wrote:
>
>> "John Bailo" <jabailo@xxxxxxxxxx> schreef in bericht
>> news:ddmdncBzDqoTGIHbnZ2dnUVZ_qSrnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>>If we usd Linux.
>>>
>>>It would be gone.
>>
>> Sorry, but that's nonsense. Spam is far too lucrative to be stopped by the
>> usage of Linux. Spam e-mails will simply contain attachments with Linux
>> binaries instead of Windows binaries.
>
> It's not the attachments that make Windwos a PITA when it comes to spam -
> it's the easily compromised machines that are turned into Zombie farms to
> send the stuff: my logs show numerous attempts by Windwos viruses/worms/etc
> to infect my [non-Windwos] machines...most likely to be added to a Zombie
> farm for spamming.
Fuel to the fire.
Spam Made Up 94% Of All E-Mail In December
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| "The major event in communications security is the emergence of
| botnets. This has changed the game, the dynamics, and economics
| of the Internet security marketplace. When the bad guys can now
| harness more than a million computers around the world and use
| them to push an increasing amount of attacks, that's a major
| change."
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http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=4H4VB4FGNIKEWQSNDLRSKHSCJUNN2JVN?articleID=197001430
http://tinyurl.com/39zfap
Botnet 'pandemic' threatens to strangle the net
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| Cerf estimated that between 100 million and 150 million of the
| 600 million PCs on the internet are under the control of hackers,
| the BBC reports.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/26/botnet_threat/
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