Unprotected Home Computers Hijacked To Send Spam

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1. Unprotected Home Computers Hijacked To Send Spam
A growing trend sees spammers targeting home computers with trojan programs to remotely send out spam.

The email service provider MessageLabs claims to have proof that
spammers, less and less likely to crack corporate boxes, are now
increasingly turning toward using large quantities of home computers to distribute unsolicited junk mail. The logic being that service providers will not catch on to what is happening if each victim computer sends only a limited amount of spam.

The steady increase in home users employing unprotected (no firewall), "always on" broadband connections has provided spammers/hackers with a fertile pasture of computers ripe for the picking. It is not difficult for them to locate and impregnate vulnerable machines with trojan programs that give the attackers the ability to use the machines to send out spam. Once the trojan program is installed on victim machines spam can be sent out at no cost and no risk.

The total amount of spam continues to rise and it is now estimated that fifty percent of all email worldwide qualifies as spam.

We've seen this some on the ISP side, its sad because some of these people barely know how to turn their computer on:/

Yeah I know my grandmother end upwith every virus known to mankind froteh net... I cannot get her to stop clickin on her e-mails. It all thes old people who send each other all this crap.....


Gov't want criminal charges for spam, why don't they focus on the people who create and send out viruses? These people cause much more damage then spam!

I think I might start sending out some DNC newsletters from Mikes system :)

Interesting..................

What products can I spam to the elderly?

I'm serious...its an untapped market .

viagra

and investment scams to take their money

:D

Pills, Retirement packages of some sort.

Diabetes equipment, wheel chairs, stuff like that mabey??

All good ones.

I think it may have been a market ignored by some....

Oral Roberts prayer cloths. They will pay you 10% of what they made that month just for a piece of cloth!

https://secure.oru.edu/oralrich/req_items.html

Ya can't go wrong with that!



Last edited by Pornwolf at Jun 17 2003, 09:47 AM

ahahahahahahahahahahaha

You know I have to!!!!!!!!

I just love the fact that I would, be to paraphrase Mr.Marley , "spamming in the name of the lord" for real,for once :)

viagra

and investment scams to take their money

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...and don't forget Celebrex (for arthritis) which *cough*we have very low prices on and our wholesale prices in our private label stores is less than 1/3 of the regular retail prices some sites are charging*cough* ;-)))

:ph34r: Jah will get you for dat, mon. :ph34r: