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| Nearly every e-mail consumers receive -- some 86 percent -- is
| considered spam, either malicious or simply "unwanted content" today, a
| new study provided to TechNewsWorld demonstrates.
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http://www.technewsworld.com/story/ekZ8y0Ze2JxZkj/Report-Spam-Accounts-for-Most-E-Mail-Traffic.xhtml
This is very much on topic because:
Zombie PCs spew out 80% of spam
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| Four-fifths of spam now emanates from computers contaminated with
| Trojan horse infections, according to a study by network management
| firm Sandvine out this week. Trojans and worms with backdoor components
| such as Migmaf and SoBig have turned infected Windows PCs into drones in
| vast networks of compromised zombie PCs.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/04/trojan_spam_study/
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