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Spamming spammers?

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The new IBM (Research) service, known as FairUCE, essentially uses a giant database to identify computers that are sending spam. E-mails coming from a computer on the spam database are sent directly back to the computer, not just the e-mail account, that sent them. "Spam has become a high priority security issue for businesses today," Stuart McIrvine, IBM's director of corporate security strategy, said in a prepared statement.

"By creating a multi-layered defense that proactively repels spam at its source, companies can get ahead of spammers and malicious hackers who are always looking for new ways of penetrating IT systems through e-mail." IBM said the new solution effectively minimizes the growing threats of "phishing and spoofing -- tactics used to trick people into disclosing information that can lead to identity theft."

source: CNN
 
A lot of spam is sent by infected zombie computers...usually computers belonging to regular folks that are always connected using a broadband connection.
 
OgieOgalthorpe said:
A lot of spam is sent by infected zombie computers...usually computers belonging to regular folks that are always connected using a broadband connection.
By a virus?

No, spammers (generally) use proxies.
 
A lot of trojans will turn an Internet connected PC into an SMTP server and funnel spam through it. Or else use open SOCKS proxies cable/dsl routers with default open settings.
 
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