On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 15:16:12 +0000
Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Cyber Crime Hits the Big Time in 2006
>
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> | Spam volumes are often viewed as a barometer for the relative
> security | of the Internet community at large, in part because most
> spam is | relayed via "bots," a term used to describe home computers
> that | online criminals have compromised surreptitiously with a
> computer | virus or worm. The more compromised computers that the bad
> guys control | and link together in networks, or "botnets," the
> greater volume of spam | they can blast onto the Intenet.
> `----
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/22/AR2006122200367.html
you know ... more to the irony, it's easier to clean a mailbox on linux
systems than on typical exchange systems... gee i wouldn't want to have
to go through the overheads there ...
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Regards, Ed :: http://www.s5h.net
proud perl person
The Dead Sea Scroll is locked up in the Vatican's vault for fear that
people will find out that it was Chuck Norris who divide the Red Sea
and not Moses.
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