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Bot Nets and Spamming
You’ve probably been deluged by Spam in the last month or so selling penis enlargement pills or trying to get you to buy penny stock. A fascinating eWeek article gives details about the sophisticated bot net that’s behind the Spam. The bot net is capable of sending over 1 billion email messages a day. That’s quite a resource. Like anyone with a valuable asset, the bot herders have put considerable time and effort into growing, managing, and protecting it. The accompanying slide show is worth looking at as well.
Posted by windley on November 16, 2006 3:00 PM
Comment from Jesse at November 16, 2006 4:55 PM
Spammers have to go to these lengths because they are losing. Gmail catches all but about 1 in 5,000 spam messages and sends it into oblivion. Services like Akismet have a low rate of false-positives and false-negatives. BadBehavior blocks bad bots from harvesting information. These collaborative reporting technologies combined with some simple heuristics means we're winning the war on spam. There's more of us than there are of them.
You might find Lorelle's comments on the war against comment spam on blogs to be enlightening.
http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/11/10/im-winning-the-battle-against-comment-spam/
Comment from Cid Dennis at November 17, 2006 7:42 AM
I like the infected by OS Graph the best its like a history of Windows.
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