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To: HAL9000
"They're sent from spam-spewing Windows zombie computers that have been infected and taken over by hackers."


So all phishing e-mails come from "zombie" Windows Servers huh?
Please be good enough to provide the proof for that outrageous statement will you?
6 posted on 02/18/2005 7:34:55 AM PST by KwasiOwusu
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To: KwasiOwusu
So all phishing e-mails come from "zombie" Windows Servers huh? Please be good enough to provide the proof for that outrageous statement will you?

Windows desktop PCs are the most common type of spam-spewing zombie, but some Windows servers are probably involved too.

Google search - spam zombies windows phishing

Here is a typical article -

The Register - June 2004 - Zombie PCs spew out 80% of spam

Four-fifths of spam now emanates from computers contaminated with Trojan horse infections, according to a study by network management firm Sandvine out this week. Trojans and worms with backdoor components such as Migmaf and SoBig have turned infected Windows PCs into drones in vast networks of compromised zombie PCs.

9 posted on 02/18/2005 7:54:08 AM PST by HAL9000 (Links to News Sources - http://tinyurl.com/3kys9)
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