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Cleaning the Spam Cesspool
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| And just in time. According to Ferris Research, a San Francisco and
| London-based e-mail and groupware analysis firm, “spam will cost $140 billion
| worldwide in 2008, of which $42 billion will be in the United States alone.”
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| That’s largely because spam hasn’t been bound to the U.S. in years. Instead,
| spam comes from botnets. These are made up of anywhere from dozens to tens of
| thousands of malware infected Windows PCs that their controllers use to
| spread spam around the world.
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http://practical-tech.com/network/cleaning-the-spam-cesspool/
Will Microsoft pay the bills?
"We need to slaughter Novell before they get stronger….If you’re going to kill
someone, there isn’t much reason to get all worked up about it and angry. You
just pull the trigger. Any discussions beforehand are a waste of time. We need
to smile at Novell while we pull the trigger."
--Jim Allchin, Platform Group Vice President, Microsoft
Related:
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
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2008-03-16-computer-botnets_N.htm
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