Re: [News] [Rival] Microsoft Windows Zombies Emit Well Over 100,000,000,000 SPAM Per Day

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Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> What is the speed of spam? 7.8 billion messages per hour!
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>> Spam volumes have doubled, and the Srizbi botnet alone was seen to
>> be capable of pumping out an astonishing 7.8 billion messages an
>> hour. That is probably worth repeating: 7.8 BILLION spams every
>> single hour!
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> http://www.itwire.com/content/view/19992/1054/

Lucky we have sendmail to forward it on...




> Bots rule in cyberspace
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>> USA TODAY REPORTS that on an average day, 40 per cent of the 800
>> million computers connected to the Internet are bots used to send
>> out spam, viruses and to mine for sensitive personal data.
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> http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/17/bots-rule-cyberspace



But just the other day you posted:

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>> Given that the company reports there being an average of 10 million
>> botnet 'zombies' active on any one day in the second quarter of
>> 2008,

So which is it Spamowitz?  Is it 10 million, or is it 320 million?



Left side of your piehole: Gartner is pay for say.
Right side of your piehole: Gartner says Linux is 4% of the market

So who paid them?