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FTC, Partners Launch Campaign Against Spam "Zombies"
From: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 20:26:37 GMT
I think this has direct operational relevance--it will be interesting to see if this "campaign" has any direct impact of the spam zombie/botnet problem -- especially when even temporarily "disconnecting" customer computers is a revenue impacting activity (even if it does violate AUP's). :-) I guess we'll see.... Excerpt from Reuters article: [snip] "Home computer users who unwittingly send out spam e-mail should be disconnected from the Internet until their machines are fixed, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Tuesday. "The FTC said it would ask 3,000 Internet providers around the globe to make sure that their customers' computers haven't been hijacked by spammers who want to cover their tracks and pass bandwidth costs on to others." [snip] Article on Reuters: http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2005-05-24T194826Z_01_N24452932_RTRIDST_0_NET-TECH-SPAM-DC.XML FTC announcement: http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2005/05/zombies.htm - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
Current thread:
- FTC, Partners Launch Campaign Against Spam "Zombies" Fergie (Paul Ferguson) (May 24)
- Re: FTC, Partners Launch Campaign Against Spam "Zombies" Joe Hamelin (May 24)
- Re: FTC, Partners Launch Campaign Against Spam "Zombies" Jerry Dixon (May 24)
- Re: FTC, Partners Launch Campaign Against Spam "Zombies" Suresh Ramasubramanian (May 25)
- Re: FTC, Partners Launch Campaign Against Spam "Zombies" Jerry Dixon (May 24)
- Re: FTC, Partners Launch Campaign Against Spam "Zombies" Joe Hamelin (May 24)