A lot of it has to do with making zombie bots out of other computers. The
Russians have been big in that and porn. We have yet to see the full force
of what the Chinese might do.
--Dave S. (Demitri)
On 2/12/09 3:33 PM, "tim ford" <[email protected]> wrote:
> used to be that way, no longer.
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> if you administer a site and use the stats tool you'll be amazed at the
> sheer number of probes you get PER HOUR from spambots, webcrawlers, etc.
> It's a growth industry
> in countries like Slovenia and Cameroon...basically places that are
> beyond the pall of normal
> prosecution channels.
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> the people who write the code try like hell to stay ahead of the
> security protocols, sometimes they win, sometimes
> they lose. CAPTCHA helps, but then new stuff comes out like XRumer that
> uses sophisticated OCR to get
> thru the CAPTCHA strainer.
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> these are not people with too much time on their hands...it's
> cash-driven and they are good!
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> [email protected] wrote:
>> Also, most problems and entries come through other member's
>> computers. Get good protection and you also protect the rest of us.
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