France launches anti-spam platform
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| On Thursday, the French government launched "Signal Spam",
| an anti-spam platform created in association with public
| entities and private companies, such as Microsoft.
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| Second, any (French-speaking) internet user can register with the
| platform and install a plug-in compatible with the following mail
| clients: Microsoft Outlook 2003 and 2007 (the user will need to
| install "Microsoft Visual Studio 2005" and "Redistributable Primary
| Interop Assemblies") and Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0. Once installed,
| the plug-in allows users to notify spam to the platform by using
| the dedicated icon in their mail client.
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http://french-law.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=38&Itemid=1
That's thge wrong approach. Microsoft should just cease its zombie
operations. They miss the very root of this problem.
Sadly, some people will believe that Microsoft is actually saving the world
from SPAM.
Related:
Botnet 'pandemic' threatens to strangle the net
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| Cerf estimated that between 100 million and 150 million of the
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| 600 million PCs on the internet are under the control of hackers,
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| the BBC reports.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/26/botnet_threat/
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