Oh, this is fucking great! SPAMMER TROJANS!!! :(

[Einhander Sn0m4n]

http://slashdot.org/articles/03/04/27/1 ... shtml?tid=

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/30414.html

"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."

Fucking Spamwhore cunts!!

[Crayz9000]

Big fucking deal if you don't use Outlook.

[Shinova]

Could you keep all these in one thread though?

[Einhander Sn0m4n]

Big fucking deal if you don't use Outlook.

Well I don't.

But what about the other twenty million d00fs on the Internet who use nothing but Outlook Express and Idiot Exploiter (unpatched, no less!) and run with no firewall of any kind whatsoever?

[phongn]

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.

[Einhander Sn0m4n]

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.

Damn. Ah well, at least I have Kerio...

[Stormbringer]

Outlook hosed again. Wow, big news there.

[Companion Cube]

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

At least it isn't all bad news....

[EmperorMing]

Die spammer, die!!!