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Jonathan Melhuish wrote:
The bigger issue is the approach your upstream takes to the incident, but compared to the number of infected Windows boxes, hotspots by people who have a clue are not going to be a big issue.That's true. I seem to be getting loads of short, but random-ish messages with Zip files attatched at the mo. I must install Razor sometime...
I was thinking spam - how do you think the current RBL got to have 100'000s of entries? Since SOBIG.F the majority of spam sources(I'm not sure it is the majority of spam YET!) we see are random scattered PCs. With the current level of anti-spam filtering in place spamming would probably be uneconomic if the spammers had to buy their own bandwidth and servers, they just steal it. Some estimates say something like one in every 250 Windows machines is being used to send spam, I think they are probably a bit high. Also not to let the bad news pass - anyone notice the recent hike in port 80 probes? Yeap another Windows worm, another half a milion infected Windows boxes <sigh>.
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