Firms targeted in spam share scam
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| But Mr Cluley suggested that a long-standing north American culture
| of small-time day-trading has encouraged spammers.
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| Millions of domestic e-mail clients allow automatic downloading of
| HTML e-mails that contain graphics which may link to spam.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5315718.stm
Mr Cluley should have suggested that a long-standing culture of sloppy and
careless programming at Microsoft has encouraged spammers. It's sad that a
good proportion of today's industry stems from malware, spyware, frauds,
puraches (many people still follow spammy links), and so-called 'security
software'.
Be sure to see the figure in the article:
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42051000/gif/_42051068_pumpdump_203x152.gif
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