Are Spammers Making You Help Them?
How Spammers Make You Help Them
Bad fellas are hijacking PC's and using them to transmit spam trash.You may unwittingly be helping spammers with their annoying and often obscene come-ons all over the Web. The danger isn't just that you're helping perpetuate scams; you may also get saddled or worse - sacked with loads of problems if a junk mailer successfully sets up shop inside your computer.
Many experts agree that it's fast becoming standard operating procedure for spammers to "hijack" unsuspecting PCs - stealing their hardware and network resources to send unsolicited email. The practice has become absolutely epidemic.
Many hosting companies block thousands of [hijacked PCs] that are generating spam every day. And when it does happen, most victims are completely oblivious to what is going on.
Spammers aren't the only culprits, either. Researchers recently said that hackers are now using similar hijacking techniques to use innocent people's PCs for hosting pornographic Web sites.
Spammers get into people's systems by exploiting holes in the intricacies of network settings that few users worry about. The wrongdoers may find these vulnerabilities already in existence on your system, or they may get you to download a virus that creates a security breach in your PC.
Antivirus and spyware researchers, for instance, say this summer's Sobig virus was likely created by spammers as a way to gain access to people's machines. Once spammers locate or create that networking hole through a virus or spyware, they're in business. And while your machine is being used to send out thousands their emails, you may notice nothing more than a slight slowdown in your Internet connection. Something to pay close attention to!
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