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Monday, June 16, 2003Spam with Everything
 According to Brightmail the messaging security firm, last months email traffic was at least 50% SPAM. If my mail box is anything to go by its a lot higher than that too. And now Messagelabs the Gloucester based firm claim to have hard evidence of the means by which the spammers are sending the email, by hijacking users computers using a Trojan contained in a virus. The "Trojan virus" involved attempted to exploit a vulnerability on Windows PCs known as an open proxy. It's not just the technical details that are important here but the fact that the Spammers are proven to have been using hacking techniques that would lay themselves open to computer misuse charges. Not that this will deter any of them!
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Stuart Miller's article in the Guardian Onlineposted by Robert Campbell 8:57 PM
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