Friday, August 19, 2005

Latest worm pumping out spam

You've likely seen it online or on the news - the latest worm hitting networks called the Zotob virus has received a great deal of attention. Yet there is very little commentary on the vicious onslaught of spam that hundreds of thousands of infected PC's are spewing across networks.

While there have certainly been spam blocker measures available to prevent incoming spam, there has been very little that deals with bi-directional spam - for PC's to be spewing spam as a result of being infected.

There are typically 2-3 major worm outbreaks each year, with hundreds of variants quickly following on their heels - that's definitely enough to cause major headaches for users if we do not take measures to stop spam on the way out as well as the way in.

Jeff
http://www.blockmorespam.com