-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello mikea,
Given half a million trojanned systems, if we do report them to their ISPs and/or ISPs' uplinks, and if those companies are serious about fighting spam, and avoiding the nastiness and dangers associated with hijacked systems, we may encourage those companies to better identify and deal with the trojanned systems, no? Bob Menschel -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0 iQA/AwUBP4zzyZebK8E4qh1HEQLouACggKr/9wPXeVnDf5+pZ8rbzVGrfUUAn2bd jN5m1Lj3vDPV4vgBcWFgcCba =xfVX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Tuesday, October 14, 2003, 1:43:43 PM, you wrote: m> 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. m> One estimate from a quite knowledgable, reasonable, and conservative m> source puts the number at over 450,000. I suspect even that is low. m> *SIGH* indeed. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. SourceForge.net hosts over 70,000 Open Source Projects. See the people who have HELPED US provide better services: Click here: http://sourceforge.net/supporters.php _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
