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[FYI] Rise of the Spam Zombies



http://www.securityfocus.com/news/4217

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Rise of the Spam Zombies

By Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus Apr 25 2003 4:45PM

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. 

"This is the newest delivery mechanism," says Margie Arbon, director of
operations of anti-spam group MAPS. "I've been looking for it for a
year, and in the last couple of months people have actually found
Trojans that are doing it... They're carrying their own SMTP engines.
Failing that, they install open proxy software." 
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