So everyone has probably received some some kind of SPAM (or Self Promotional Advertising Message) in your email inboxes. We all hate it and I am sure we all feel that it has to be one of the worst ways to advertise on the internet. But of course SPAM is used for others things as well. Such as Phishing, Virus Attacks, Spyware and much much more. When it comes down to it I personally hate SPAM and I look and look for ways to attach back myself. But of course this is really really hard to do.But did you know that 6 SPAM bots (bots are also known as web robots that run automated tasks over the internet. Google uses it to index web pages for example) are responsible of 85% of all spam. From the 6, Srizbi botnet is the largest single source of SPAM, accounting for 39% of junk mail messages. A company by the name of Network Box which is a managed security firm has spread the most viruses and trojans compared to any of the other 6 SPAM bot companies.
But our government is fighting back against these spammers. From Slashdot.org there was a article called, Spam King Pleads Guilty In Seattle. It examples that Robert Soloway (i.e a spammer) pled guilty to mail fraud and tax evasion. Which we might spend up to 5 years in jail and have to pay up to $625,000 in fines for selling $550 packages to wannabe spammers.
It seems like everyone is getting hit with these spammers, Google is even saying that spammers are getting more clever. The question I want to know is Why? I keep hearing more and more that crime is changing from our streets to the web. Criminal spammers are attacking websites like, Myspace and Facebook and even IE plugins. I think that there has to be a way to attach back. Kind of the Robin Hood of the web. If hackers (the good ethical hackers) could find ways to allow anyone to fight back. I would be a wonderful era in stopping these criminal spammers. Believe me I have looked and looked at ways to attach back and have found little or no way to do this except for all the virus/spyware protection software out there. This works as a passive way to stop them from controlling your computer. But what I am talking about is a way to play the offensive at attach them on the front line. This would be great. If you can let all of us know how to accomplish this offensive!!!!!
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