“Botnets cranked out more spam and larger individual files
containing spam in the first quarter of this year, according to the
latest report from Postini, Google’s e-mail filtering and security
service.“Despite the best efforts of security software developers and
the mostly successful efforts to neutralize especially destructive
botnets, such as Mariposa, Zeus and Waledac, Google’s data centers
reported a 30 percent increase in the size of individual spam
messages at the end of March.“”This recent spate of botnet takedowns has not had a dramatic
impact on spam levels,” Gopal Shah, a member of Google’s Postini
services team, wrote in a blog posting.”What part of “Don’t use Windows” is so hard to
say?–ed.
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