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  Friday, June 27, 2003


"Junk e-mailers are spreading viruses that let them send spam anonymously through home computers, according to an e-mail security firm.

The company, MessageLabs, operates servers that block spam and viruses for its clients. Its analysis of data shows that mass distributions of junk e-mail are increasingly coming from the Internet addresses of computers that have in the past sent out viruses as e-mail attachments. 'There is a high correlation,' said Matt Sergeant, senior antispam technologist for the New York-based company. 'About 30,000 machines have both open-proxy software and are responsible for sending viruses.'" [News.com]
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