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Microsoft takes on spam zombies
by bucy at 11:15 pm EDT, Oct 27, 2005

The company has identified 13 different spamming operations that use such "zombies," it said Thursday. A lawsuit was filed against unnamed defendants in August. Since then Microsoft has tracked down some of the people behind the operations, said Tim Cranton, director of Internet Safety Enforcement Programs at Microsoft in Redmond, Wash.

My new day job is keeping gmail safe from the undead hordes. Zombies are bad. bad bad bad bad bad bad!