On Thursday 16 November 2006 10:59 pm, Steve Lake wrote: > Oh joy. So what do we do about this? Are they going to try and > bust these guys? Or can't they touch them? > > At 08:16 PM 11/16/2006 -0500, Peter H. Lemieux wrote: > > From this article at eWeek: > >http://www.eweek.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=194218,00.asp > > > >"The recent surge in e-mail spam hawking penny stocks and penis > >enlargement pills is the handiwork of Russian hackers running a botnet > >powered by tens of thousands of hijacked computers. > > > >"Internet security researchers and law enforcement authorities have > > traced the operation to a well-organized hacking gang controlling a > > 70,000-strong peer-to-peer botnet seeded with the SpamThru Trojan." > > > >Peter
Well as of this morning it 'appears' to have slowed considerably, instead of the 200 or so I was seeing at 6am, I have only 40 and only one of those is a subject from the recent flood. -- Chris
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