RE: [Asrg] 2. Spam Measurements - Analysis - Spam Delivery

["Peter Kay" <peter@titankey.com>]

This would be very interesting to see how message labs verified this.  How do they know if a given ip is hijacked? 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yakov Shafranovich [mailto:research@solidmatrix.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 3:31 PM
> To: asrg@ietf.org
> Subject: [Asrg] 2. Spam Measurements - Analysis - Spam Delivery
> 
> 
> According to Message Labs, Inc. in this recent MSNBC article 
> (http://www.msnbc.com/news/940853.asp) over 70% of all spam 
> is sent via 
> hijacked computers. This supports what Barry Shein has been 
> saying for some 
> time and we need to take this factor into account.
> 
> ----snip---
> "Researchers say hundreds of thousands of vulnerable 
> computers are being 
> used to launch spam campaigns now. In fact, 70 percent of all 
> spam is now 
> sent this way, according to anti-spam firm Message Labs Inc. 
> ù and perhaps 
> 6 to 7 billion spam messages are routed through hacked home 
> computers."
> ----snip---
> 
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