FTC, Partners Launch Campaign Against Spam "Zombies"

["Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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

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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
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