RE: How many backbones here are filtering the makelovenotspam scr eensaver site?
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 4:28 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: How many backbones here are filtering the makelovenotspam scr eensaver site?
on Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 04:15:34PM -0500, Hannigan, Martin wrote: quoting me:
My point was to Martin's question about what would happen if - god forbid - there were large botnets under the control of spammers; a careful reading will suggest that my major point was, duh, that there already are large botnets under the control of spammers.
Um, not 1 million bots - in concert.
And you know this how, exactly? I'm sure not convinced.
http://w3.cambridge-news.co.uk/business/story.asp?StoryID=65877 "Lycos Europe's 20 million users will all be invited to download the software, but it is available to anyone with an internet connection running either Windows or Mac OSX or Mac OS9 operating systems." http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/12/02/anti.spamvigi.ap/ "Around 65,000 people already signed up for the offensive, called "Make Love not Spam" before Tuesday's official launch on a website by the same name, the company said. It is urging its 22 million users to download the screen-saver, but says anyone with a computer is welcome to it."
on Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 04:46:00PM -0500, Hannigan, Martin wrote: quoting me:
Um, not 1 million bots - in concert.
And you know this how, exactly? I'm sure not convinced.
http://w3.cambridge-news.co.uk/business/story.asp?StoryID=65877
"Lycos Europe's 20 million users will all be invited to download the software, but it is available to anyone with an internet connection running either Windows or Mac OSX or Mac OS9 operating systems."
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/12/02/anti.spamvigi.ap/
"Around 65,000 people already signed up for the offensive, called "Make Love not Spam" before Tuesday's official launch on a website by the same name, the company said. It is urging its 22 million users to download the screen-saver, but says anyone with a computer is welcome to it."
Yes, yes - I know that Lycos has tens of thousands. What I want to know is how you know that there aren't existing 1M bot zombie nets aside from the Lycos attempt (which as you can see, is thus far only comparable to the 100K/day estimate given by Steve Linford). -- hesketh.com/inc. v: +1(919)834-2552 f: +1(919)834-2554 w: http://hesketh.com join us! http://hesketh.com/about/careers/account_manager.html join us!
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