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Quick Bytes: Kill the zombies
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September 2005



    
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is working with dozens of organizations around the world to put pressure on Internet service providers (ISPs) to take voluntary steps, such as quarantining infected computers to try to reduce the onslaught of spam sent through so-called “spam zombies,” computers that have been hijacked to send spam. 




The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is working with dozens of organizations around the world to put pressure on Internet service providers (ISPs) to take voluntary steps, such as quarantining infected computers to try to reduce the onslaught of spam sent through so-called “spam zombies,” computers that have been hijacked to send spam.  


@ More on the FTC’s Operation Spam Zombies [2] is at SM Online.


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[2] http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/spam/zombie/index.htm