theregister.co.uk — After carefully analyzing the massive botnet known as Mega-D and Ozdok, the security company FireEye last week launched a coordinated blitz on dozens of its command and control channels used to send new spamming instructions to the legions of zombie machines that make up the network. Almost immediately after this, the spam stopped.
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Closed AccountNov 11, 2009
Good riddance. I wish we could kneecap the viagra selling, porn peddling, mortgage refinancing, whore pandering, Nigerian scamming jackasses behind all of the s**t.I have to check two levels of my spam filters to see if they have nabbed legit emails.That's time wasted that I'd rather be fishing.
subliminalurgeNov 23, 2009
Yeah, monitoring within Windows would be easily defeated.What needs to happen, and it needs to happen f**kING YESTERDAY, is for ISPs and consumer hardware makers to start giving half a s**t about network security. If a residential cable modem connection is spewing 10,000 port 25 connections a day, their service should be shut off until they clean it up. If they really have a legitimate need, it shouldn't be hard to make exceptions.Also, Linksys, Netgear, et al need to get their s**t together. Right now from my desk in my home office I can access 6 wide open access points. Not only can I log onto the Internet through them, I have full admin access. If I was a little more evil, I could lock them down with my own password to prevent them from setting up security to keep me out. There is no f**king excuse for routers being configured that way out of the box.Once upon a time, computer hardware and software came with manuals. If you wanted to do something, you had to read the f**king directions. It's a shame there are no viruses out there anymore that wipe your hard disk (despite thousands of bogus email warnings to the contrary). If people started getting their s**t wiped out every few months, maybe they'd start paying attention to security. As it stands, as long as they can log onto Facebook, nobody really cares much if their cesspool of a PC is churning out spam at the speed of light.
kitsuaNov 26, 2009
And it was all down to the Sword of a Thousand Truths....
uv0001Nov 28, 2009
Care to give the names of some of the big corporations that have sold email addresses out? Also, what action do you take when you find out a company has sold your email? Threaten lawsuit or something to get money?