"....factor revenue made from hosting known spam gangs into corporate policy decisions...."

Or, in other words: "There's a lot of meat in a can of spam".

Mine's the one with the fat wallet and the tin-opener in the pocket.

I gave up reporting fraudulent sites hosted at live.com months ago.

A DNS search comes up with half a dozen abuse@ addresses. Many bounce, and no reports ever get acknowledged. Who knows if any action is ever taken?

And, while I am at it, I have also reported sites selling pirated MS software. I don't do that any longer, for similar reasons. They can stick their anti-piracy gripes where the sun doesn't shine. Same comments apply to Adobe.

"Microsoft's live.com system has for some time been supporting an illegal drug sales operation, and Microsoft has known this."

Could this explain the behaviour shown on the multitude of "Monkey Boy" videos on the web?

I'd get my coat, but it's under surveillance...

inside MS is works something like this - it is not my responsibility - it is not my responsibility - and so on.

A bit higher it is - no I do not think we have such a problem - no we do not have such a problem and so on.

I've repeatedly found that reports of spam sites or computer viruses hosted on livefilestore.com, Microsoft's file and malware distribution system, are rejected by a form email that reads "Unfortunately, in order to process your request, MSN Support needs a valid MSN hosted account."

It's totally unclear from this stunningly badly-worded, garbled message whether Microsoft's abuse team--if indeed it has one--is trying to say that they only accept abuse reports from people who are Microsoft hosting customers, or if their software is just so fundamentally broken that it can't recognize a Microsoft-hosted URL in the message body.

...that spamming is in violation of the EULA??

Solved. Next case!

A few weeks ago, after months of reporting 100s of spam messages to Microsoft and only seeing an increase, I now whitelist my friends and blacklist the domains. The fun part is that due to MS's policy of not delivering failure notices, the sender will never know this. Though you didn't really want to get ahold of me if you use a service that won't notify you of failures. Fun!

I've stopped reporting spam via MS's networks a while ago as it seems that it is ignored like a russian spammer. You'd think they could break off a few million for spam, maybe borrow from the 'I'm a PC' kitty.

"Hi, I'm a PC and I Spam you."

Anyone want to submit a webcam video for their commercials?

imapc.lifewithoutwalls.com/

microsoft is a software giant so live.com should use best spam and av protection and the best is,well KASPERSKY,not the cheap trend micro or what ever.and they should use KASPERKSY OPEN SPACE TO GET RID OF THEIR PROBLEMS IN THEIR SITES.

As long as the spammers run a legit version of windows they have nothing to worry about from MS

not only must i contend with a regular portion of beefy spam in my in-box which, regardless of my attempts to report as junk always seem to bypass the junk mail folder... i am also in the enviable position of having a friend whose emails, for some inexplicable reason, ALWAYS get sent straight to my junk mail folder, despite the fact that he is in my friends/contacts list and has, to date, been actively designated as safe on no less than a dozen occasions (probably nearer 50).

so, dear Microsoft, please - play the ethnically typical pale skinned penis wielding human and remove with all haste your significant pointing index digit out from the depths of the dark and faecal-tainted orifice it currently finds itself embedded within.

correction: as long as they aren't threatening to defect to linux they have nothing to worry about from MS