StarDestroyer.Net BBS

www.Slashdot.org wrote:"El Reg has the scoop on a trojan that actually turns your machine into a spam sending proxy. Called "Proxy Guzu", the proxy arrives in your mailbox in the usual "Outlook virus" way (ie disguised as something else so you'll run it.) It then sends an email to a Hotmail email account reporting the IP address of the infected machine and port it's running on. The spammer then merely transmits spam to the infected machine which in turn forwards it on. There's a bright side to all this: Spammers are doing this because they're desperate, with fewer and fewer spam friendly havens. And what they're doing is illegal and opens them up for prosecution."

Crayz9000 wrote:Big fucking deal if you don't use Outlook.

phongn wrote:This spam proxy doesn't care if you use Outlook or not - only that you execute the file. It's a classic trojan. It indeed will catch people without an outbound firewall as well.

CmdrTaco wrote:There's a bright side to all this: Spammers are doing this because they're desperate, with fewer and fewer spam friendly havens. And what they're doing is illegal and opens them up for prosecution