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FTC in worldwide effort against "zombies"
The Federal Trade Commission is asking for cooperation from Internet providers worldwide to stop home computer users who have computers that unwittingly send out spam e-mails.
These home - and in some cases - corporate - computers are known as "zombies" because they have been hijacked by spammers who use their bandwidth and cover the spammer's Internet footprints. Recent computer research has shown that zombie networks are responsible for up to 80 percent of all spam.
According to the FTC, Internet providers should be able to identify computers on their networks that are sending out large amounts of e-mail and quarantine them if they are found to be zombies.
They should also help customers clean their machines and tell them how to keep them safe in the first place, the FTC said. Most U.S. Internet providers have already taken steps to find zombie machines, according to computer industry officials. But other countries have been more lax about finding the zombies, industry officials say.
Posted by Bob Francis on May 25, 2005 07:50 AM
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