http://www.securityfocus.com/news/4217
---SNIP--- Rise of the Spam Zombies By Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus Apr 25 2003 4:45PM Pressed by increasingly effective anti-spam efforts, senders of unsolicited commercial e-mail are resorting to outright criminality in their efforts to conceal the source of their ill-sent missives, using Trojan horses to turn the computers of innocent netizens into secret spam zombies. "This is the newest delivery mechanism," says Margie Arbon, director of operations of anti-spam group MAPS. "I've been looking for it for a year, and in the last couple of months people have actually found Trojans that are doing it... They're carrying their own SMTP engines. Failing that, they install open proxy software." [...] ---SNAP--- -- np: Judas Priest - Breaking the Law
