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[News] [Rival] New Signs That E-mail Was Ruined by Microsoft Windows Zombies

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] New Signs That E-mail Was Ruined by Microsoft Windows Zombies
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 18:54:54 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Comcast starts blocking email willy-nilly

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| After much shouting Comcast has lifted the block on the IP range. But this 
| seems to be a problem with several US ISPs. For example, one ISP in Florida 
| and another in California are convinced that every email from Bulgaria must 
| be spam and is refusing to receive mail with a .bg ending.   
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/12/21/comcast-starts-blocking-email


Related:

Microsoft is the world's biggest cause of zombie remailers

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| In China, it would take about one and one-half years wages (for the
| average Chinese) to buy a legitimate copy of Windows Vista. If you
| could find it here.
|
| Microsoft is the biggest cause of zombie remailers in the world,
| because they make noises, but do not do anything to address the
| real digital inequities in the world.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38202


Despite filters, tidal wave of spam bears down on e-mailers

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| "Two years from now, spam will be solved."
| 
| — Microsoft's (MSFT) Bill Gates, 2004, World Economic Forum in Switzerland
| 
| [...]
| 
| "I never said it would be solved," Gates said in an interview with USA TODAY 
| last month. "I said it would be substantially reduced, and in fact it has 
| been reduced a lot."  
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http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2007-11-22-spam_N.htm?csp=N008


The end of Windows, or a security expert gives up

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| And then go and warn others to do the same. Windows is defeated - its days 
| are over. It carries the worm inside. So whatever will happen next: RIP, 
| Windows.  
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http://wolfgang.lonien.de/?p=456


In zombies we trust

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| A little over a year ago, I wrote an editorial where in back-of-the-envelope 
| style (.pdf) I estimated that perhaps 15-30% of all privately owned computers 
| were no longer under the sole control of their owner. In the intervening 
| months, I received a certain amount of hate mail but in those intervening 
| months Vint Cert guessed 20-40%, Microsoft said 2/3rds, and IDC suggested 
| 3/4ths. It is thus a conservative risk position to assume that any random 
| counterparty stands a fair chance of being already compromised.      
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=661


Over 50% of corporate desktops infected with malware: IronPort

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| The report also reveals that more than 50% of corporate desktops
| worldwide are infected with some type of spyware with the rate of
| infection as high as 70% in the United States. Trojans or malicious
| system monitors represented over 7% of the infections. Rootkits and
| trick loaders, which reinstall spyware and other obfuscation techniques,
| make remediation very difficult thus prevention is the key to stopping
| these threats.
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http://www.crn-india.com/breakingnews/stories/66870.html


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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