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

[Yakov Shafranovich <research@solidmatrix.com>]

I think Matt Sergeant was lurking in here somewhere and he works for 
MessageLabs. Perhaps he can give us some more information.

At 11:19 AM 8/13/2003, Peter Kay wrote:
> 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.
> > · and perhaps
> > 6 to 7 billion spam messages are routed through hacked home
> > computers."
> > ----snip---
> >
> >
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