Again we get to see and hear more and more of this abuse of the Net by unethical people. It gives you the creep of what is going to happen as more and more people taking on the cyber world without any sense of good ethics, self respect and respect of others. Cyber world provides the platform for people to express themselves to a larger world and audience that never before possible. It also provides the 'shade' from prying eyes of their true identity thus making them feel brave to do things that they 'knowingly' know would adversersely affect others and unintentionally gain them the title "World's Spam Capital"
HONG KONG (AFP) - - Hong Kong is under siege from legions of "zombies" attacking people with spam and leaving in their wake a trail of destruction costing millions of dollars a year, analysts have warned. It sounds like the plot of a surrealist B-movie but it is the worrying scenario computer users are facing in a city which has been awarded the unenviable title of spam capital of the world.
The problem has taken a sinister new twist with the rise of so-called zombies -- computers infected by a virus that are sending reams of spam, or unsolicited emails, without their users' knowledge.
There are an estimated 4,000 zombies active in Hong Kong and their criminal puppet masters use them to fire off thousands of messages offering products ranging from jewellery to pornography.
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