I think Matt Sergeant was lurking in here somewhere and he works for
MessageLabs. Perhaps he can give us some more information.
At 11:19 AM 8/13/2003, Peter Kay wrote:
This would be very interesting to see how message labs verified this. How
do they know if a given ip is hijacked?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yakov Shafranovich [mailto:research(_at_)solidmatrix(_dot_)com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 3:31 PM
> To: asrg(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
> Subject: [Asrg] 2. Spam Measurements - Analysis - Spam Delivery
>
>
> According to Message Labs, Inc. in this recent MSNBC article
> (http://www.msnbc.com/news/940853.asp) over 70% of all spam
> is sent via
> hijacked computers. This supports what Barry Shein has been
> saying for some
> time and we need to take this factor into account.
>
> ----snip---
> "Researchers say hundreds of thousands of vulnerable
> computers are being
> used to launch spam campaigns now. In fact, 70 percent of all
> spam is now
> sent this way, according to anti-spam firm Message Labs Inc.
> · and perhaps
> 6 to 7 billion spam messages are routed through hacked home
> computers."
> ----snip---
>
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