February 3, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Anti-spam organization Spamhaus (spamhaus.org) has warned that spammers have developed new and more effective methods of sending unsolicited bulk email, foreshadowing a surge in spam around the world, reports say.
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Spamhaus says the new software takes over a computer and uses it to send spam through that particular machine’s Internet service provider. With spam appearing to come from a variety of ISPs, filtering technology will be unable to combat the problem by simply blocking domains from those ISPs.
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According to a number of reports, various Internet service providers in the United States have already been affected by the new spamming technique.
