On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 03:25:14PM -0500, David B Funk wrote:

> 2) Virus/worm hijacked PCs. We're seeing lots of PCs on cable modems
>       that have "remote control" trojan/worms on them that are being
>       used by spammers as open proxies (for both SMTP & HTTP).
>       So you may be able to get a few of these shut down but
>       there are thousands of them.

> Sigh.

One estimate from a quite knowledgable, reasonable, and conservative
source puts the number at over 450,000. I suspect even that is low. 

*SIGH* indeed. 

-- 
Mike Andrews
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