Universities warned of Storm Worm attacks
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| Between the beginning of June and the end of July, the cumulative number of
| internet addresses trying to send spam jumped to 1.7 million, averaging about
| 100,000 addresses each day.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/17/storm_worm_attacks/
Is anyone else bombarded with overwhelming piles of Windows spewage (SPAM)? I
had to spend half an hour today just going through thousands of these and it
keeps getting worse.
Related:
Hotmail still riddled with spam
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| Microsoft has admitted that up to 98 per cent of messages sent to
| Hotmail addresses are spam.
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| [...]
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| The findings will disappoint Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, who
| predicted at the 2004 Davos World Economic Forum that spam would
| be "eliminated" within two years.
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http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2188226/hotmail-riddled-spam-admits
Microsoft is the world's biggest cause of zombie remailers
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| In China, it would take about one and one-half years wages (for the
| average Chinese) to buy a legitimate copy of Windows Vista. If you
| could find it here.
|
| Microsoft is the biggest cause of zombie remailers in the world,
| because they make noises, but do not do anything to address the
| real digital inequities in the world.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38202
Botnet 'pandemic' threatens to strangle the net
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| Cerf estimated that between 100 million and 150 million of the
| 600 million PCs on the internet are under the control of hackers,
| the BBC reports.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/26/botnet_threat/
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