Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 10891
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2003/10/31 [Computer/SW/Virus] UID:10891 Activity:kinda low
10/31   Spammers have gotten a LOT smarter and have been using things
        like ViaTgra instead of Viagra in their subjects, etc. The more
        I think about this the more I think we're losing the war. It's like
        the virus/anti-virus co-evolution. There will always be a few
        virus that gets through the filter and screw us up majorly.
        \_ IFILE!
        \_ Somebody screw us up the bomb!
        \_ No, the more they use non-English words and misspellings the
           less it looks like real email and the easier it is to filter.
           The fact they they do such things means the good guys are winning
           and winning big.
           \_ "These latest attacks show the terrorists are becoming more
               desperate."
              \_ Nice try but no relationship.
           \_ exactly.
        \_ There was an interesting article I found a few days ago, on
           networks of subverted zombie machines acting as distributed,
           dynamic spam sources, web proxies/gateways and content sources,
           and even DNS servers (auto-switching themselves to new IPs from
           a pool of controlled hosts.)  'ViaTgra' is soon to become the
           very least of your problems when dealing with spam.  If you're
           interested, mail me and I'll dig up some articles.  -John
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