Re: [Asrg] 4. Survey of Solutions - Methods of Authentication -Trojans]

[Fridrik Skulason <frisk@f-prot.com>]

> If anyone think spammers will move en masse to trojan systems to continue
> their habit, I believe they are sadly mistaken.

I wouldn't be too sure about that.  I am looking at this problem from a
anti-virus/anti-trojan perspective, and what I am seeing is the establisnment
of several networks of "zombies", used for spam-related purposes - not
only spamming, but also DoS attacks on anti-spam sites.

The connection between spammers and compromised machines is becoming 
clearer and clearer.

The spammers that just buy spam software from companies like www.saurabh.info, 
www.marketing-2000.net, www.massmailsoftware.com or other similar companies
do not use the zombie nets, that's true...you have to look elsewhere,
for example at the spammers with connections to the Russian criminal 
underground.

I am not sure how high the percentage of spam from zombie machines is,
but it is growing...that much is certain.

-- 
Fridrik Skulason   Frisk Software International   phone: +354-540-7400
Author of F-PROT   E-mail: frisk@f-prot.com       fax:   +354-540-7401

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