[59130] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Spammers use Trojans
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (james)
Mon Jun 16 04:26:46 2003
Reply-To: "james" <hackerwacker@cybermesa.com>
From: "james" <hackerwacker@cybermesa.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 02:26:13 -0600
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
: I don't know what proof MessageLabs has, but they report that spammers
: are breaking into home PCs of unsuspecting users to send junk mail.
I see quite a bit of this; mostly from DSL customers. What few spam complaints
we get are by far sent by this method. The users have no idea their boxes are spamming.
James Edwards
jamesh@cybermesa.com
Routing and Security
