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Old 10-30-2005, 03:19 PM   #1
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MS takes a stab at Zombie Computer Spam networks.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/busine...tzombie28.html

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"Once on the Internet, the company says, the infected machine received 5 million connections from spam operations using the network, causing the computer to attempt to send more than 18 million spam messages during a 20-day period."

WOW, thats alot of messages
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Old 10-30-2005, 04:09 PM   #3
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"Once on the Internet, the company says, the infected machine received 5 million connections from spam operations using the network, causing the computer to attempt to send more than 18 million spam messages during a 20-day period."

WOW, thats alot of messages
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