Gates' Resolve in Bringing Spammers to Justice

An anonymous reader writes "It didn't seem to me like any single company had the stomach to keep after the scum that are ruining the Net for the rest of us. Unless that company is Microsoft. Since the beginning of 2003, Microsoft has filed 96 lawsuits against spammers, and 119 lawsuits against phishers. By any measure, 215 lawsuits constitutes a legal juggernaut. "

Comments

Re:Referrer Log Spammers should be sued too

[roseblood]

Microsoft/Gates usually gets a bad rap on /., but kudos to them for going after the scumbags of the Internet.

Well, if they'd make an OS that wasn't set up as to be easy to "zombie-fi" then I suspect a lot of spam wouldn't even be a worry as I read in wired(or a slashdot link to wired?) that a large minority of spam is sent from hijacked computers running MS OS.

Fix the security hole and a large % of spam goes away.

Also a diversionary tactic

[rhizome]

The more they howl about spammers, the less attention will be paid to the fundamentally broken qualities of Microsoft email clients. Security holes in Outlook? LOOK OVER THERE, IT'S A DIRTY SPAMMER.