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Re: Spammers use Trojans
From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve () telecomplete co uk>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 10:45:05 +0100 (BST)
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Sean Donelan wrote:
I don't know what proof MessageLabs has, but they report that spammers are breaking into home PCs of unsuspecting users to send junk mail. http://www.vnunet.com/News/1141610 Spammers are increasingly hijacking home PCs to send junk mail, according to MessageLabs. The managed email service provider claims to have proof of spammers using viruses to plant Trojan malware on PCs to provide remote access.
Yes this is the latest in evolution from open relay, formmail vulns and now to worm/trojans I think this is the source of the joe job stuff i posted about a couple weeks back Steve
Current thread:
- Re: Spammers use Trojans, (continued)
- Re: Spammers use Trojans E.B. Dreger (Jun 15)
- Re: Spammers use Trojans Dan Hollis (Jun 16)
- Re: Spammers use Trojans Peter Galbavy (Jun 16)
- RE: Spammers use Trojans Lars Higham (Jun 16)
- Re: Spammers use Trojans David Lesher (Jun 16)
- Re: Spammers use Trojans Dan Hollis (Jun 16)
- RE: Spammers use Trojans Lars Higham (Jun 16)
- Re: Spammers use Trojans David Lesher (Jun 16)
- Re: Spammers use Trojans E.B. Dreger (Jun 15)
- Re: Spammers use Trojans Jeremy T. Bouse (Jun 16)