On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Eric S. Johansson wrote: > But using your spam size, , the slowdown factor becomes roughly > 73 times. So they would need 73 machines running full tilt all the time > to regain their old throughput.
Believe me, the professionals have enough 0wned machines that this is trivial. On the flipside, it means the machines are "burned" faster. > unfortunately, I think you making some assumptions that are not fully > warranted. I will try to do some research and figure out the number of > machines compromised. The best No. I had seen to date was about 350,000. It's at least an order of magnitude higher than this, possibly 2 orders, thanks to rampaging worms with spamware installation payloads compromising cablemodem- and adsl- connected Windows machines worldwide. AB