There needs to be a global anti-spam task force made up of "good" hackers who overload the phishing sites and spam servers with noise and viruses of their own. Fire with fire. It's a war and "we the people" are getting creamed.
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Escalating Spam Wars Take Their Toll
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Spam's most-serious threat is still in spreading viruses. Dominique Loiselet, head of WebsenseFrance, a computer-security firm, says 5 percent of the 350 million e-mails the company inspects each week carry viruses. Many try and steal data such as banking de tails. They carry an unquantifiable cost: con fidence in the Internet as a "legitimate in strument" is suffering, says Cynthia Heijna, a spokeswoman at OPTA, a communications law-enforcement agency in The Hague. That's bad news for businesses and e-mailers alike.
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