Re: Help- Spam Bots are spamming my site.
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texte = I think that the major reason for these spam attacks is that the spammer is actually making a commission for any sales made through their links. The communities are fairly flat for cash, so if they can get onto a system that will make them a few more dollars they will exploit it to the limit. The only solution is far too hard to achieve - remove the source of the payment to the spammer. On 14 Jan 2007, at 11:17 PM, Frank Nordberg wrote: > I think the only thing we can do is work together to raise the > general awareness of internet security. I don't think many computer > owners allow their computers to be a part of a trojan network on > purpose, it's all down to ignorance. It's interesting to notice > that so many of the attacks seem to come from some specific > countries/regions reltaively new to the web. There's no reason why > a Russian computer should be more vulnerable to a trojan than a US > one. It has to be because the average US web surfer knows more > about how to protect his computer than the average Russian. And > that again of course means computer security information campaigns > does work in the long run. ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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I think that the major reason for these spam attacks is that the spammer is actually making a commission for any sales made through their links. The communities are fairly flat for cash, so if they can get onto a system that will make them a few more dollars they will exploit it to the limit. The only solution is far too hard to achieve - remove the source of the payment to the spammer. On 14 Jan 2007, at 11:17 PM, Frank Nordberg wrote: > I think the only thing we can do is work together to raise the > general awareness of internet security. I don't think many computer > owners allow their computers to be a part of a trojan network on > purpose, it's all down to ignorance. It's interesting to notice > that so many of the attacks seem to come from some specific > countries/regions reltaively new to the web. There's no reason why > a Russian computer should be more vulnerable to a trojan than a US > one. It has to be because the average US web surfer knows more > about how to protect his computer than the average Russian. And > that again of course means computer security information campaigns > does work in the long run. ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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