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Infected Windows PCs Now Source Of 80% Of Spam
twitter writes "The Register is reporting a study by Sandvine.com that blames Microsoft Zombies for 80% of all spam. The study goes on to claim that 90% filtering is not effective given the unprecedented volume and that sophisticated trojans are able to drop spam directly on end user's computers despite current efforts. Just another cost of supporting Microsoft, I suppose."
You see this is what I don't like about ISP's, they're not too shy about taking the money from those mom's & pop's wnating to see their (grand)childeren on the intarweb.
Sometimes the ISP's even advertise the protection against viruses in their advertising campains, wich usually only means protection of your email-inbox. In belgium they even install high-bandwith dsl or cable on that crappy unpatched, non-firewalled win98 box.
Free service they call it, the tech dude comes over hooks your pc up and has leaves the house if the 'ipconfig' worked.
So when the shit comes down, they take the money, blame the hackers and live happy ever after.
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No, "FUD" is the common man's insult here on Slashdot, used to dismiss anything as just a ploy or a falsehood.
I merely point out that it's not "FUD" for a company to discourage piracy of its own product.
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