Roy Culley wrote:
> 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.
The better solution is to fix the underlying protocol so that spam
can't be sent. Assuming that the story is accurate and that zombies
really do send 80% of the spam, this means that the remaining 20%
(still a large number) is somehow being sent legitimately. If all
zombie PC's were to vanish then spammers would switch to using this
"20% method" and continue sending their spam.
The current protocols were developed back when there were a couple of
hundred guys on the net and spam wasn't even conceived of. The better
solution is to update the mail protocols and how mail is distributed
over the net such that spam can't be sent - period.
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