NewsForge: Warez Spammers Discover Linux | Linux Today

NewsForge: Warez Spammers Discover Linux

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 13, 2004

“We Linux users have probably gotten a collective total of at
least 32 trillion pieces of spam email trying to sell us Windows
warez. But until now, we were always frozen out of these bargains.
Unless we ran CrossOver Office, what did we need with a pirated
copy of Photoshop or Microsoft Office? (Not only that, most of us
use free, open source alternatives anyway.) But now we have
arrived. There is finally enough commercial software for Linux that
the pirates and warez spammers want our business, too.

“What follows is the complete text of a spam I recently spotted
while checking the ‘junk’ file from my personal email
address…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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