Microsoft losing war on spam

By Andrew Raff on January 20, 2005 10:26 PM | | TrackBacks (1)

Salon.com: How Microsoft is losing the war on spam: "Most junk e-mail today emanates from Windows computers that spammers have hijacked and turned into spam "zombies" using security holes in Microsoft's operating system. What's more, Microsoft is blamed for wrecking efforts this past summer to create e-mail authentication standards. The company also stands accused of trying to neuter state anti-spam laws. And Microsoft has yet to win a lawsuit against a major spammer."

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