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."

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Re:So instead of investing all this time and money

[hawkeyeMI]

I run massively long calculations on my desktop, which just happens to be faster (per simulation) than our $60,000 SGI server. Of course, that has 8 CPUs and with parallelization can run 5 or 6 jobs maxed out, but when I have a simulation I want done faster (rather than several to do at once) I do in fact use my Linux desktop.