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Spammers Exploiting Hotmail Vulnerability

Posted by timothy on from the special-circumstances dept.

chip rosenthal writes "Notice more Hotmail spam in your inbox recently? There is a good reason for that. In March, spammers discovered a new vulnerability in the Hotmail service that allows them to script their spam sending. So far I've seen a 2200% increase in Hotmail spam as a result. We're now at three months and counting, and the problem only seems to be getting worse."

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  1. Another fine service from M$ by Znonymous+Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This isn't a bug, its a feature...

    HotMail + SPAM
    SQL + Slammer
    IIS + Code Red
    Outlook + BugBear

    With all these value added features in M$ products, no wonder they have such a strong hold on the desktop market.

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