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Infected Windows PCs Now Source Of 80% Of Spam

Posted by timothy on from the targets-of-opportunity dept.

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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  1. Not FP. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Come on, this story's been here for ages... and not even a FP troll? Man, this sucks...

  2. First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First Post. Wow! or not ...

  3. Linux Users: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Please learn to like women.

    Thanks.

  4. Re:MOD PARENT DOWN, FAILED TO BASH MICROSOFT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I love slashdot, it is much better than Cats. I will read it again and again.

    I love slashdot, it is much better than Cats. I will read it again and again.

  5. I knew it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I wonder if Bill knows he's the anti christ.

  6. Re:Spyware vulnerability by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    And exactly how did this get modded as overrated-flamebait? Just curious is all...

    -NLM

  7. Re:So instead of investing all this time and money by hawkeyeMI · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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.

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