From: Thompson, Jimi (JimiTmail.cox.smu.edu)
Date: Fri Mar 05 2004 - 11:52:18 CST

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The thing that I've seen hasn't been the relatively new "spacking"
phenomenon (spammers + hackers), but they've used these sites to serve up
porn in a distributed manner, collecting rather high rates for hosting
"adult" sites. So much for the "always on" connection......

Jimi

Christopher Kunz wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I don't know how many german-speaking members this list has, but I'd
> like to point all people who are working on the spamming/trojan issues
> to a rather good article in the german IT magazine "c't"
> (http://www.heise.de/ct/inhalt.shtml).

It is also available in english:

http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/44879

Cheers,
Juri

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