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Writing Viruses for Fun and Profit

Posted by Hemos on from the insidisous-dependence dept.

JMPrice writes "There's a short article over at zdnet that explores a future synergy between viruses and spam, i.e. international crackdown on spam and open relays makes spammers opt to use infected computers instead as relays, and speculates a relationship between the virus writers and spammers."

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  1. Re:Soblig by Spudley · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Should I expect to find "herbal remedies" in this zip file?

    Duh. It'll be a bigger pen1s, of course. What else would you expect to find if you open a zip?

    And for that matter, why did you think this virus is called "So Big?"

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