Virus infections drop, spam on the up
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| The number of viruses hitting Irish inboxes has fallen but spam continues
| to rise, according to figures from IE Internet.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/04/viruses_down_spam_up/
This is on-topic because secure computing would end all the madness (unless
one sends spam from personal machines before being banned/arrested).
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| Four-fifths of spam now emanates from computers contaminated with
| Trojan horse infections, according to a study by network management
| firm Sandvine out this week. Trojans and worms with backdoor components
| such as Migmaf and SoBig have turned infected Windows PCs into drones
| in vast networks of compromised zombie PCs.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/04/trojan_spam_study/
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| Nearly all of the Internet-connected computers that send e-mail
| are controlled by spammers, according to companies that track
| e-mail reputations.
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http://news.com.com/2100-7349_3-6098447.html?part=rss&tag=6098447&subj=news
More than 95% of e-mail is 'junk'
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| More than 95% of e-mail is junk, be it spam, error messages or
| viruses, report mail monitoring firms.
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| Further work has shown that most of this junk mail is originating
| on hijacked home computers.
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| E-mail security firm Return Path said 99% of the computers it monitors
| that send mail have been taken over by spammers or virus writers.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5219554.stm
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