Next-gen botnet armies fill spam void The demise late last year of four of the world's biggest spam botnets was good news for anyone with an email inbox, as spam levels were cut in half - almost overnight. But the vacuum has created opportunities for a new breed of bots, some of which could be much tougher to bring down, several security experts are warning. New …
Anyone that buys anything from a spam mail should be banned from computers, teaching and, breeding.
Anyone who enters details into a site linked from spam/scam mail should be banned from computers, teaching and, breeding.
I know it's harsh, however our office mail gets 90,000 spam mails and 2000 legit mails in a 28 day period (the joys of having a mail domain that's been around for 9 years.)
Eventually with no idiots to buy junk or fall for the fraud from spam the spammers will move on to something more devious but slightly less messy and irritating.
As to infected windows machines, of course they are, their the most common desktop systemm operated by joe average so they're the most complicated for attacks that depend on users being unprepared for attacks.
*ix boxes tend to be the target of more complex and focused attacks against specific targets but when operated by the normal linux user are only marginally more secure then a windows box. If every tom dick and harry had linux installed then you'd see massive networks of linux infected machines.
....many ISP's in the UK give A/V and Firewalls away free, but most people choose not to install them!
I'd make it compulsory if I was an ISP, to have up to date a/v and firewall. It's not like there are no free ones out there!
that would stop a HUUUUGGGEEE amount of this crap out there.
Hmm the amount of spam I get did go down but now it's back up again and it's using UTF-8 encoded UTF-16 titles, like I can't tell those, I've just written a text translator that does just exactly that..
I mean why can't ISP's e-mail or contact in some other way people who's machine appear to be botnets and say "We've noticed a sudden rise in the amount of e-mail traffic".
Or how about blocking any e-mail being sent that's could be a forged address.
i.e myspamaddress@geoff.com when they've not sent one from there - okay would need some checking.. but since "web mail" based stuff all goes via http they'll probably switch to that...
A half decent filter would work as well.
Anon as well - I hate them all..
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