Have Spammers Overcome the CAPTCHA?

thefickler writes "It appears that spammers have found a way to automatically create Hotmail and Yahoo email accounts. They have already generated more than 15,000 bogus Hotmail accounts, according to security company BitDefender. The company says that a new threat, dubbed Trojan.Spammer.HotLan.A, is using automatically generated Yahoo and Hotmail accounts to send out spam email, which suggests that spammers have found a way to overcome Microsoft's and Yahoo's CAPTCHA systems."

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Re:Too bad MS ignores RFC 2821

[owlnation]

I agree.

In fact, I see no reason not to blacklist anything that has an @hotmail domain. Once upon a time, about 10 years ago I guess, most people I knew used hotmail. Nowadays, no-one does. I can think of no legitimate mail I've received from an hotmail account in the past couple of years.

I suspect the reason for this is at least in part because hotmail's junk mail filters are lame, their mailbox size allowance is pathetic, and you have to keep signing in all the time to keep your account active. They clearly never put their customers first.

Now if only people could be persuaded to stop using Yahoo, at a faster rate...