[dba-Tech] OT: Chinese spam

It is no effort to send spam. 

Recently a friend had his mail server hacked and a very sophisticated
'zombie' was inserted that allowed mail from some other unknown location to
be forwarded, using a sequential numbering system to everyone. There were no
logs kept or anything that would get back to the hacker... This was not a
little hacker job but a highly complex piece of code probably written by
company that specializes in spam.

The only reason he found out was that his own mail was being blocked by his
ISP. For the last couple of weeks he has been trying to get his site off all
the black-lists. 

To make a short story long, the email spam you received is probably being
sent from some unaware server, feed from some remote site in China and it
just happened to increment to your mail address... random stuff.

Jim 

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Susan Harkins
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 11:39 AM
To: DBA Tech List
Subject: [dba-Tech] OT: Chinese spam

Okay, this is a bit off topic, but why do I keep getting spam in Chinese? I
mean, I can't read Chinese, don't visit sites that are in Chinese, and just
have no clue who or why anyone would waste efforts by sending spam in
Chinese. 

Susan H. 
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