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Botnet Mafia in Online Turf War

Posted by samzenpus on from the make-them-an-offer-they-can't-refuse dept.

An anonymous reader writes " The kind of turf war seen in the real world by drug gangs is being replicated by the criminal gangs behind spamming botnets, and things are turning nasty."

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  1. hai 2 u by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    mexicans did wtc

  2. Botnets and MACS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Mac fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a G5 w/1 Gig of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.

    In addition, during this file transfer, Safari will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.

    I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.

    Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.

  3. biggest botnet.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    of them all is SETI@home, it has been set up by Aliens themselves ;)

  4. Re:ISPs have to be the solution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    There is an easier way that doesn't punish responsible users: Simply drop all outgoing SMTP traffic from windows computers.

  5. Re:Trying to care by Ash+Vince · · Score: 0, Troll

    So you won't mind if I post your email address (shown in your message header) after removing the spam obfuscation then?

    I really did consider doing this (especially since its a Gmail one and you probably wouldnt have got any spam anyway) but decided that giving the spammers one more email would just result in extra crap flying round the wires of the internet, even if it did never get anywhere you could read it.

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    I dont read /. to RTFA, I read /. to offend people in ignorance.