On Feb 6, 2005, at 10:17 PM, Nick Arnett wrote:
Robert G. Seeberger wrote:
And that comes right after AOL claimed that spam was going down and that everybody was saying that spammers had given up… It seems that spammers have adapted. How can they use the ISP's infrastructure and why can't the ISPs prevent them from doing it?
And in case anyone is wondering what the answer is to that last question... it's that the spammers are hijacking computers via malware and exploits and then using the victim's ISPs to send spam.
The ultimate source of these problems is at least partly a corruptible operating system. A class-action suit against Microsoft would go a long way toward addressing spam, since UNIX, Linux, BSD and Mac systems don't have these kinds of security issues.
It's impossible for Windows' current engine to be fully secured; the integration of VBscript guaranteed it, and VBS is built so deeply into the platform that it can't be removed without a top-down rewrite.
Eliminate Windows and you'll eliminate spam. As well as proximally all viruses extant today.
-- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror" http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf
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