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Article #1126Re: ISPs can easily decrease net abuse
From: Rod
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 22:14
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 22:14
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jem@users.pc9__org wrote... > >As I'm sure lots of you are aware, cable/DSL machines are infected by >viruses and worms like nothing else. They become sources of email >viruses and other types of malicious traffic. I've received as many as 20 infected emails in one day. That's my record, so far. I don't know what the current estimate is, but the last estimate I read was that at any given time, about 500,000 computers are infected. It could be closer to a million machines now.
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