Why do I get all this spam?
If you have ever wondered why you get so much spam, this article will take that question away.
“Our research has revealed a smoking gun that shows that Storm and other botnet spam generates commissionable orders, which are then fulfilled by the supply chains, generating revenue in excess of $150 million per year.”
That’s Million. With an M. It is a lot of money, and that is why you get spam.
This report links canadian drug sales, or probably placebos, with the Storm virus. These groups capture large amounts of computers running on desktops all over the country, and use them as BotNets. This allows them to send out emails from several different locations at once, or at different times. So, blocking specific IP addresses is useless.
One would have thought this would have been fixed with XP SP2. However, it appears botnets will be with us for a while. As long as you make it lucrative for someone to send spam, you will get spam.
Filed under: Spam, Computing, Security
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