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Botnets Join Forces To Send Billions Of Spam Messages

Two massive botnets have combined to form what could be one of the biggest spam campaigns ever created. Security software company Symantec discovered the coexistence of two separate botnets on the same computer, which amplifies the spam productivity of every compromised machine. Symantec conservatively estimates that there are 308,000 compromised computers in the botnet, capable of sending 2000 spam messages per hour, or between 1.2 and 3.6 billion spams per day depending on how many hours per day the computers are online.

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