October 10, 2004

What do you call 100 spammers at the bottom of the ocean? A good start.

From MSNBC the following cheerful news:

"spammers are starting to sneak special code into that opt-out link which turns the spam recipient into an unwitting accomplice. The link is really a clever trick designed to turn the victim's computer into a zombie that can be used to send out more spam."

Yes, folks, they are using their stupid "opt-out" links to infect your PC with trojan zombie software so they can use your PC in their zombie spam network.

Naturally a lot of the blame for this belongs squarely on the back of a certain predatory monopolist software company which I wll not name, but the fact remains that when spammers who do this are caught, they should get a soft-nose round through the back of the head.

Twenty or thirty like that might actually get a message out to the rest.

Posted on October 10, 2004 10:29 AM