The federal government is now in the zombie-hunting business — and is deputizing virtually every Internet Service Provider in the United States as it seeks to halt the flow of unwanted spam e-mail in this country and overseas. The Federal Trade Commission, the federal anti-trust watchdog, is planning in coming weeks to begin sending ISPs reports on the computers on their networks that are zombies. Once the ISPs receive the information, it is then their duty to disable the zombies, which are primarily home PCs that have been hijacked by hackers to illicitly send out spam.
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Feds Eye New Mission: Zombie Hunting
Posted by: Gene J. Koprowski July 30, 2005 05:00 AMThe federal government is now in the zombie-hunting business — and is deputizing virtually every Internet Service Provider in the United States as it seeks to halt the flow of unwanted spam e-mail in this country and overseas. The Federal Trade Commission, the federal anti-trust watchdog, is planning in coming weeks to begin sending ISPs reports on the computers on their networks that are zombies. Once the ISPs receive the information, it is then their duty to disable the zombies, which are primarily home PCs that have been hijacked by hackers to illicitly send out spam.