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82% of email is spam82% of email is spamPosted May 6, 2004 4:09 UTC (Thu) by freethinker (guest, #4397)Parent article: 82% of email is spam Hmm... Wood also attributes the rise in spam to the huge number of open proxies on the Net. Virus writers began teaming up with spammers last year, and so far it's been a dangerous combination. Virus writers send out malicious code that infects computers and opens a back door in the machine. Wood estimates that 70 percent of spam is sent through open proxies. Well, then, this isn't a problem, because as everyone knows, Microsoft is now taking security seriously! So I'm sure all those zombies will be dead real soon now.
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82% of email is spam Posted May 6, 2004 15:31 UTC (Thu) by mmarsh (subscriber, #17029) [Link] Microsoft's product quality, from a security standpoint, would likely improve more quickly if there were a demand for it from customers. I don't mean "supply and demand"-type demand, I mean "fix your damn software!"-type demand. The best way to do this is for ISPs to go back to TOSing users whose machines are compromised and used as zombies. It all goes back to good digital hygiene, and most users today have never had an Internet Health class. One of the reasons that FLOSS has a better security record is that the Unix community went through its baptism by fire a few decades ago, and now the bulk of the Unix-ish systems users _know_ that they want a secure system and _expect_ it from their providers. FLOSS is even more susceptible to this, since there's a lot less lock-in with it, making it easy for users to switch to alternatives if they're not satisfied.
82% of email is spam Posted May 17, 2004 12:01 UTC (Mon) by coolian (guest, #14818) [Link] Why do you think Microsoft will EVER change, unless given a monetary reason to do so? They dominate for now, and they rarely change until they are forced to. Bush couldn't force them, but maybe in a few years, when Linux is making MS toss its salad...
82% of email is spam Posted May 13, 2004 12:47 UTC (Thu) by Wol (guest, #4433) [Link] My box got compromised (W2K server).Indeed, it was so bad, that it took me about four attempts before I could download the necessary security patches to fix the problem. The spam software - which I didn't know what it was although I knew something was wrong - was pinching nearly all available cpu and bandwidth so the system had nothing left to download the patches with :-( Cheers,
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