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Mark Jurik wrote:
>"Pressed by increasingly effective anti-spam efforts, senders of unsolicited
>commercial e-mail are resorting to outright criminality in their efforts to
>conceal the source of their ill-sent missives, using Trojan horses to turn
>the computers of innocent netizens into secret spam zombies."
>
>http://www.securityfocus.com/news/4217
>
>Anyone know which anti-trojan software can prevent this?
The best defense is vigilance, beginning with avoiding using
Microsoft software for email. That's probably not what you wanted
to hear though.
I myself use Windows on my desktop and laptop, but I have absolutely
no email software on it. I get my email through a unix server to a
unix account, and I do not open any attachment that is executable.
I use procmail on my unix account to filter my mail and I reject
as spam anything that arrives in pure HTML, so that when I use a
webmail viewer I get no surprises.
I also get no surprised because I use Proxomitron to filter all my
web activity, and it does an excellent job preventing malicious
cookies and javascript from being executed. I also run spyware
detection software every month (never found anything yet except a
cookie or two).
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