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Sobig Worm Attacking RBL Lists?
Ubi_NL writes "According to the Register there is a close correlation between the DDOS attacks on a number of anti-spam lists and the presence of the Sobig virus. Now that Monkeys.com is gone, and spamhaus.org is taking heavy blows, are the spammers actually winning the battle by using viruses?"
Look what I got yesterday (with forged headers):
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Dear Internet user.
We are an organization dedicated to stopping spam. Please help us as we are
funded solely by private donations.
visit www.spamcop.net for full details. Or you can send your donations to:
Julian Haight
PO Box 25732
Seattle, WA
98125-1232
As you can see by this message unsolicited e-mail is an invasion of your
privacy. As you can also see it can be sent anonymously
We will continue our efforts until all spam is eliminated.
To join please visit www.spamcop.net or contact
jkdom@mail.julianhaight.com
We will continue to send out this message until we convince all ISP's to
stop all spammers.
!!!Stop low-lifes from invading your inbox with their junk!!!
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If they spew out fake spam which can only be meant for slanderous purposes, would you really expect them to *not* be in the virus game. Almost all these Windows viruses, if you hexdump them, have smtp capability. It's quite thinkable that a fair amount of them are really experiments rather than 'bad things done to innocent users because the virus writer likes doing that'.
There must be a lot of money involved in the art of spamming still. I wouldn't be surprised if spamhauses are partially means of laundering money as well (think about it). Either way, these people *are* criminals and one should consider them as such.
I most certainly hope so! Blacklists are a cure far worse than the disease, and I'm completely rooting for the spammers here.
Publishing spam blacklists is a form of free speech and what you're advocating is the use of illegal means (DDoS) to suppress free speech. You suck.
What with bayesian junk filtering and using uniquely generated email addresses whenever I give them, I never see any spam, and the bandwidth it's costing me is minimal.
Grandma isn't going to be able to install and use bayesian filtering or generate unique e-mail addresses, so your solution sucks. Any "solution" which doesn't keep the spammers from getting their messages to the vast majority of people is just some geek doing mental masturbation. The spammers will continue to spam, using up bandwidth and storage, while costing ISPs, their subscribers, and businesses huge sums of money. And you'll sit there at home patting yourself on the back (or elsewhere) even though the spammers used your bandwidth, your ISP's bandwidth, your ISP's storage, and your storage. Not seeing the spam means that you can't complain about it, so that means that the spammer has less chance of being shut down.
You're just a spam ostrich. You have your head buried in the sand so that you don't see the spam -- even though it's still there.