Microsoft and Pfizer are after the Viagara Spammers — as yet unknown — according to Security Focus. Microsoft is upset because the target of many of the mails are hotmail accounts, costing unnecessary bandwidth and creating a nuisance for the users. Pfizer on the other hand is concerned because the Viagara isn’t it’s Viagara, and they are losing money. Nothing seems to indicate that it isn’t the real stuff, but would you want medicines from just anywhere? Well if you respond to the spam that is what you are getting.
In other news in the same article, Earthlink is after spammers as well. As an Earthlink account holder, I hope they succeed, because I get many times the spam on my Earthlink accounts that I get elsewhere, even though those addresses have never been published on the web. The addresses I have published on the web do get spam, but nothing like what I get on Earthlink. It makes you wonder how those addresses have gotten around.
