__/ [ Roy Culley ] on Monday 02 October 2006 22:57 \__
> begin risky.vbs
> <pan.2006.10.02.21.45.47.768000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Meat Plow <meat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 22:29:59 +0100, Roy Schestowitz Has Frothed:
>>
>>> Subject: [News] 64.4% of E-mail is SPAM (Thanks, Microsoft!)
>>> From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Reply-To: newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
>>> Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 22:29:59 +0100
>>>
>>> Old spammers learn new tricks
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | Spam Bot operations are increasing in particularly in South American
>>> | countries where it is the favoured method of distributing bank trojans
>>> | and phishing scams.
>>> `----
>>>
>>>
>>> Zombie PCs spew out 80% of spam
>>
>
>> That's retransmitted by 'nix mx servers.
>
> Enlighten us as to how many servers retransmit an average email? Your
> knowledge of how 'mx servers' work is eagerly awaited.
>
> The cost of filtering spam and other nasty email payloads sent by
> winbot systems is enormous. The solution is to fix this problem at the
> source of this crap not at the recipient end.
To elaborate and squash that junk spewed out by the trolls (maybe they are
zombified themselves):
,----[ Quote ]
| 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'
,----[ Quote ]
| More than 95% of e-mail is junk, be it spam, error messages or
| viruses, report mail monitoring firms.
|
| [...]
|
| Further work has shown that most of this junk mail is originating
| on hijacked home computers.
|
| 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
These figures are much more recent than the ones in The Reg.
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