Slashdot Mirror
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."
devise is also STLL infactdead? what's the cost (freedom of speech?) in that, to US?
previously titled:
va lairIE/robbIE answer yOUR questions interview (Score:mynuts won, TrollBait)
by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 07, @10:19AM (#9356075)
is almost ready?
remember, keep it simple. no questions about the monIE, or gnu online dating. the 'answers' have already been prepared buy a cesspool of ?pr firm? hypenosys talknicians, & will be released as soon as the questions match them.
it all seems more like some greed/fear/ego based badtoll, where evile WINds up eating it's young, if you ask US?
this stuff is unbreakable, & wwworks on/in several (more than 3) dimensions.
from a post meant to be titled:
unprecedented evile nearly disempowered, forever?
(score: mynuts won:-) previously PostBlocked(tm) material reposted)
by a disorganized rag-tag team of a few billion near nobodys, using what was available to them, which was almost nothing?
& just who are some of unprecedented evile's local representative(s)?:
The contract was awarded to Accenture, formerly Andersen Consulting, over two competing contractors, Lockheed Martin and Computer Sciences (a veritas (cess)pool of evile stock markp FraUDsters). Several industry executives and analysts said that the award surprised them and that Accenture had widely been considered the outside candidate.
The award also brought controversy. Accenture is incorporated in Bermuda, and some critics attacked the idea of awarding a contract so valuable and important to national security to a company with its headquarters outside the United States.
After Accenture was named, Representative Lloyd Doggett, a Texas Democrat, suggested the company took advantage of an uneven playing field to win the contract over Lockheed Martin and Computer Sciences.
"If companies truly want to contribute to our nation's security, they can pay their fair share of taxes. If they want a slice of the American pie, they had better help bake it," he said in a statement.
A spokesman for Accenture said that the company paid United States taxes.
Representative Richard E. Neal, a Massachusetts Democrat and a senior member of the House Ways and Means Committee, also questioned the award.
"This decision is outrageous," he said, in a statement. "The Bush administration has awarded the largest homeland security contract in history to a company that has given up its U.S. citizenship and moved to Bermuda. The inconsistency is breathtaking."
the stock markup FraUD/softwar gangster payper liesense hostage grab 'business plan' is looking a little hapless now?
fauxking billyonerrors. sheesh.
lookout bullow. tell 'em robbIE?
all is not lost.
consult with/trust in yOUR creators.... the returns are immeasurable/infinite.
see you there?
Due to excessive bad posting from this IP or Subnet, anonymous comment posting has temporarily (forever, if we had some ept) been disabled. You can still login to post. However, if bad posting continues from your IP or Subnet that privilege could be revoked as well. If it's you, consider this a chance to sit in the timeout corner or login and improve your posting . If it's someone else, this is a chance to hunt them down (like with fuddle's phonIE corepirate nazi bouNTy hunter scam). If you think this is unfair, we just don't care.
YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED
GNU/Linux distros don't come with firewall enabled cause they don't need it : with no (stupid backdoor) service started like 135 139 445 etc. there is no need to.
aurelien
geeks can be Microsoft supporters. But the masses here at slashdot seem to want them to begone and have to constantly make a hostile environment for them.
If Microsoft can sue Spammers for spamming, can we sue Microsoft of allowing Spammers to spam?
"640 K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates, 1981
In anycase, how do you properly configure and protect a Windoze box from itself? Because the vectors are born in services that the user demands, email and web browsing, you can't keep them from getting through. What bandaids to Microsoft's design flaws do you use to keep your machines "clean"? Can you really justify that kind of expense and effort for home users? You have to clean up after them periodically anyway, don't you? When it's all said and done, it's easier for the home user do dual boot something like Mepis and blind that M$ junk by removing network drivers.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
Clearly, you're venting your frustrations over the fact that Microsoft Windows is currently used way, way more than your religion, er operating system known as Linux. Zealots like you turn everything into a penis size debate.
Yes! Because I love it when a patch screws up my system and forces a reinstall!
Cite a single example.
Having automatic update/apply turned on lets me blame MS instead of myself for installing their craptacular patches that eat my registry!
Cite a single example of a patch that will "eat my registry." Oh, I forgot, you're just spewing FUD! That's a term we like around here.
Woohoo!! Go automatic patching!!
First you were bitching because you didn't have time to scan Windows Update, then when your ass was called on your ignorance due to Automatic Updates (which prompts you when you first run XP), now all the sudden patches are magical entities that "eat your registry" and do other vague claims that are never specified.
I've had plenty of Linux "updates" fuck things up. Hell, I've had GNOME crash enough times for me to have to reformat twice. Grow the hell up and spend some time away from Slashdot--it's turned you into a raving, frothing fanboy zealot who lashes out in any way possible to defend the penis size of his religion/operating system.
"Sufferin' succotash."