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Original Post: Why there's so much spam
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Apparently, some of the malware out there can spew out astounding amounts of spam traffic. PCWorld reports:
TRACElabs concluded that Rustock and Xarvester, the latter perhaps linked to the down-and-out Srizbi botnet, are the most efficient spam-spewers of the nine bots. Each is capable of sending up to 25,000 messages per hour, or 600,000 per day, and 4.2 million per week.
If they do that level of traffic normally, you would think the owner's of infected PCs would notice....
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