on Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 02:17:14PM -0500, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:44:13 PST, JC Dill said: > > > Universities are often major sources of spam. Spam is sent directly > > from virus-infected student computers, > > Got any numbers to back up the claim that virus-infected student computers > are anywhere near the problem that virus-infected student's-parents computers > are? > > (I'm not saying universities are perfect - we have to nuke several users > a day because their accounts or machines fall under enemy control. But I > see a lot of people repeating the meme without any numbers to back it up)
Without going into comparisons between resnets and the world at large, I will say that the resnet problem has gotten a *lot* better over the past couple of years; it used to be that every new semester saw a huge uptick in botted resnet hosts, but we haven't seen anything like that for two years or so. Good work! -- hesketh.com/inc. v: +1(919)834-2552 f: +1(919)834-2553 w: http://hesketh.com/ antispam news, solutions for sendmail, exim, postfix: http://enemieslist.com/
