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Spammer DDoS-By-Virus On spamhaus.org

Posted by timothy on from the hissing-and-roiling dept.

McDutchie writes "Steve Linford of Spamhaus announced in a press release that the latest Wintel virus, W32/Mimail-E, was created by spammers for the specific purpose of DDoS'ing Spamhaus, Spamcop, and SPEWS. It's becoming more and more clear that the spambags are the ones behind the recent mess with the Windows viruses. They must really be getting desperate."

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  1. DDoS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wonder if this will be quickly followed by a press release on being slashdotted..? The world's friendliest DDoS attack..

    Chris, taffie down under..

  2. This oughtta help by _LFTL_ · · Score: 5, Funny

    W32/Mimail-E, was created by spammers for the specific purpose of DDoS'ing Spamhaus, Spamcop, and SPEWS.

    And in phase two of the attacks spammers craftily create stories containing links to the target spam lists and post them on slashdot. LFTL

  3. Great News! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is great news!

    Now we're once step closer to linking spam to al Qaeda. These viruses are terrorist actions, and are more demonstrably more dangerous even than Iraq's nukes!

    Once we somehow link spammers to September 11, we can invade them (or maybe just throw them in jail where the other inmates can do the "invading").

  4. evil spammers getting it slashdotted... by auzy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, the guy behind this article is obviously a spammer.. its a really smart idea to slashdot a site which is getting DDOS'ed... Well, I'm wondering what would have been more damage.. the worm or the slashdotting