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SendSafe users "rent" lists of compromised home computers, which are then used as an army of e-mail spam machines. No hard figures are available, but Internet security experts believe that SendSafe and a similar program called Direct Mail Sender are used by a majority of spammers.On a very related note: [webmasterworld.com...]
It collects e-mail addresses directly from any e-mail server especially from most of the free e-mail servers such as hotmail.com etc.Grrrrr....
make their zombie-sent e-mail appear as if it were sent directly from an Internet service provider's systems
I do lead AV administrator for our sector. I was charged with SPAM reduction. I just got a solution in place. An unsuspected benifit....if the e-mail header of the e-mail does not conform to RFC standards it gets tossed. In talking with Symantec they state over 90% of e-mail distributed viruses have....invalid headers. So before SOPHOS, which we use at the SMTP gateway, or Symantec, which we use at the desktop, have DATs/DEFs for a new strain the SPAM solution stops the new strain from even getting in our front door.We used to get hammered with Beagle/Bagle and Sober when new variants came out. Since we put this up we had not one report of infestation.
