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