New Spam Zombies Use ISPs' Mailservers

RMX writes "CNet's reporting that the new spam zombie PCs are no longer acting as their own mailservers, but cooperate with the ISPs' recommendation that instead of running your own mail server, to use theirs instead."

violation of ISP contract?

[Starbreeze]

Yeah, and then all those zombies lose their ISP accounts, and suddenly become much more aware of the need to secure their PC.

MMMMmmmm

[Azeroth48]

MMMMmmmmm Brai.... Opps MMMMmmmmm Spam

can we expand the war on terra to include spammers

[trolluscressida]

I would love to see a Special Ops unit bust down the walls of a spammer's house, beat him, gag him, beat him again, send him to Guantanomo Bay for eternity, and than C-4 the spam servers.

Everyone should write their congressmen [house.gov] requesting this.

Re:Zombie trick expected to send spam sky-high - t

[hunterx11]

If you're karma whoring, at least have the decency to format your text. Only some people hate whores, but everybody hates ugly whores.

Re:Bring back Make Love not Spam...

[Requiem Aristos]

> I know two wrongs don't make a right, but--grrrrrrr--I HAT how these spammers work.

I fail to see the second wrong. Perhaps you are equating legality with morality?

Email Meltdown my ass

[mg2]

If we just switched to a secure email system (SSL/TLS, or whatever), a lot of these dumb problems would go away.

Yes, I know some mail clients don't support this functionality, but come on. Name one of the modern clients that won't do it. Thunderbird, Mail.app, Eudora, Outlook ... they all know how.

I suppose then you just have to convince users. This, though, should be the easiest part:

Dear User,
This email is to notify you that your neighbor has been recieving your monthly e-bank statements and password confirmation emails because you are stubborn and insist on using insecure email protocols.

Incidentally, we'd like to thank you for your subscription to DAILY LESBIAN ACTION MAIL!!!1

Great

[bahamat]

Since they're cooperating so wonderfully, has anybody thought to ask them to stop sending spam?

Death of the net predicted - pictures at 11.

[Michael Woodhams]

"The e-mail infrastructure is beginning to fail," Linford warned. "You'll see huge delays in e-mail and servers collapsing. It's the beginning of the e-mail meltdown."

Re:Simple solution

[mcc]

Otherwise, two problems could be solved in one fell swoop: ... use Pine

But then they would have a third problem.

Re:can we expand the war on terra to include spamm

[Anonymous Coward]

You should listen more closely to what GWB says. It's not the war on Terra, it's the war on Terrr.

Re:violation of ISP contract?

[McNally]

Personally I would rather see it this way; if your car is doing something bad, then it should be stopped and not allowed on the road until it's fixed. IE leaking oil on the road, lots of smoke coming out of it, or parts falling off.

It's not quite clear from context: did you mean "IE" to represent "id est" or "Internet Explorer"?