>> Any Hotmail users noticed an increase in spam in the last few days?
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>> Any comments/suggestions welcome.
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Strange that you are getting more spam, when, according to today's report below, Microsoft Live products (which includes hotmail) especially should be seeing a lot less spam. www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/27/pushdo_botnet_crippled/
Security researchers have disrupted the botnet known as Pushdo, a coup that over the past 48 hours has almost completely choked the torrent of junkmail from the once-prolific spam network.
i only use my hotmail account for preferred users and only log in manually
maybe this is why its such a pleasure to use
forgot to say,ive never had any spam
botnet searchsecurity.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid14_gci1030284,00.html
A botnet (also known as a zombie army) is a number of Internet computers that, although their owners are unaware of it, have been set up to forward transmissions (including spam or viruses) to other computers on the Internet. Any such computer is referred to as a zombie - in effect, a computer "robot" or "bot" that serves the wishes of some master spam or virus originator.