If anyone think spammers will move en masse to trojan systems to continue
their habit, I believe they are sadly mistaken.
I wouldn't be too sure about that. I am looking at this problem from a
anti-virus/anti-trojan perspective, and what I am seeing is the establisnment
of several networks of "zombies", used for spam-related purposes - not
only spamming, but also DoS attacks on anti-spam sites.
The connection between spammers and compromised machines is becoming
clearer and clearer.
The spammers that just buy spam software from companies like www.saurabh.info,
www.marketing-2000.net, www.massmailsoftware.com or other similar companies
do not use the zombie nets, that's true...you have to look elsewhere,
for example at the spammers with connections to the Russian criminal
underground.
I am not sure how high the percentage of spam from zombie machines is,
but it is growing...that much is certain.
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Fridrik Skulason Frisk Software International phone: +354-540-7400
Author of F-PROT E-mail: frisk(_at_)f-prot(_dot_)com fax:
+354-540-7401
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