Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
On 27-mei-04, at 16:56, Valdis(_dot_)Kletnieks(_at_)vt(_dot_)edu wrote:
(I've yet to see a proposal that works if the spammers start
utilizing zombie machines that snarf the already-stored credentials
of the user
to send mail)....
The question is whether spammers can obtain new credentials (stolen or
otherwise) faster than others can blacklist them.
And, if you had actually read the message you replied to, you would have
realized that the answer is yes. Send out a worm that makes N zombies,
have each zombie send one message under the local user's credentials,
and none of them will get blacklisted.
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