Trouble With Botnets

I tell you, last year about this time, it really looked like we just about had spam licked. While I was just starting work with Message Parters, I remember the feelings of self-satisfaction when we told someone that you use this spam filter, and then spam would be gone.

Oh my oh my how things have changed. Image spam, while we're getting a leg-up on them, image spam is quite the tough baliwick, and it's gonna take the best minds a bit longer to find a true fix (though our greylisting sure is giving spam all sorts of difficulties right now).

And then there's the unending zombie war currently going on with botnets. Seems malware has been written that, once some sort of MS Office document is opened, immediately turns that persons computer into a spam slave (please people, never ever open an attachment from someone you don't know, and if you get something unexpected from someone you know, contact them first to make sure it's all right to open).

Currently, there are botnets ranging anywhere from a few thousand computers to over a million. That's a lot of spam clogging inboxes. But I promise you, the gang at Message Partners is doing fine against the million bot march of spam, and not long from now, we just may have an answer to bring down some of these nattering networks. I'll keep you tuned in.