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[News] [Rival] Microsoft Deletes E-mails Because of Windows Zombies

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Microsoft Deletes E-mails Because of Windows Zombies
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:16:39 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
If Intent Can Be Proven, Microsoft Could Face Millions Of Mail Fraud Charges

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| The final results bore out the "conventional wisdom." If emails were donuts, 
| Hotmail would be HomerSimpsonMail. I don't need to reiterate the figures, 
| there they are in blue and red. But for a Hotmail account to destroy up to 
| 81% of all emails with attachments prior to their delivery to a "generic" ISP 
| email account is nothing short of absurd, as these Hotmail accounts were not 
| the free variety, but the fully paid ones. Compare those figures to the ones 
| where the generic ISP email accounts exchanged emails with attachments and 
| you will clearly see the difference. The worst performance was in making 2% 
| Vanish.        
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http://hubpages.com/hub/Hotmail_Fails_To_Deliver_Up_To_81_Of_All_Attachment_Emails


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. 
| 
| [...]
| 
| 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 shipped OneCare unfinished?

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| Since shipping in May, OneCare has failed industry tests and exposed
| users to attack because of a security flaw in the antivirus engine.
| The application also incorrectly flagged Gmail as a virus and in some
| cases quarantined or even deleted complete in-boxes when a single
| e-mail was laden with a virus. 
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http://news.com.com/2061-10789_3-6168629.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news


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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