[svlug] botnets

[John Conover]

Skip Evans writes:
> Rick,
> 
> Do I understand correctly? Are you saying that 90% 
> of ALL spam comes from spambots?
>

For the month of December, my stats were a little over 97%. (Mostly
stock "pump-n-dump" schemes.) The remainder of the spam was from
opt-out lists where the honey-pot email address was harvested, in a
use-it-once domain name spam distribution from a legitimate server
account.

YMMV, FWIW ...

      John

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