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Amazon's EC2 Having Problems With Spam and Malware

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the you-kids-get-off-my-cloud dept.

jamie pointed out a story about the recent problems Amazon's EC2 service has been having with malware and spam. "EC2 space is now actively blocked by Outblaze, and has been listed by Spamhaus in their PBL list [...] However as Seth Breidbart noted in the comments, 'note that Amazon will terminate the instance. That means that the spammer just creates another instance, which gets a new IP address, and continues spamming.' True enough -- as described, instance termination simply isn't good enough."

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  1. Death Penalty by Archangel+Michael · · Score: 5, Funny

    While I'm against the death penalty, I might be willing to consider it for spammers.

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    1. Re:Death Penalty by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Now thats the REAL instance termination we need!

      Not spam filters, SPAMMER filters!

  2. Re:So what is EC2? by SleepyHappyDoc · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wikipedia says it's the north eastern corner of the city of London, roughly. I don't get the article, either.

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