Re: OT: Net traffic jams?

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

Jon Longtin wrote:
> I am seeing a 25:1 increase in non-filterable spam. Others have also
> commented on this. As I understand it, they embed their message in an
> image file with distorted text character images (pdf, peg, etc.) rather
> than plain text or html.  Such files currently cannot be scanned for
> spam. Additionally, there appear to be hidden robotic programs being
> secretly installed on vulnerable computers which keep automatically
> pucking this rancid offal onto the net day in and day out.
> Jon
Interesting, if horrendous to contemplate. (A very good reason, by the
bye, to set your e-mail to text only if you can.) But the zombified
machines have been around for a good (or ill) while. I think this is
something affecting the UPenn server (see previous post about timing
questions). Offlist messages, even from the West Coast, arrive betimes.

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Patricia M. Godfrey
PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx