What is a
SPAM
Zombie?
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Unlike
the friendly mailman in the picture above, a SPAM
Zombie is a personal computer that is controlled by someone other
than it's owner, SPAM Zombies are responsible for a good deal of the
SPAM email arriving in your inbox and are usually created when a virus
gets
into the machine and opens a "back door". A back door allows
someone (in this case an unscrupulous
individual) to use your computer and its internet connection to send
out thousands of
pieces of junk mail. The people who control SPAM Zombies may organize
thousands of computers into a SPAM Zombie network, used to flood the
internet with millions unwanted emails each day. The programs that
control these computers also go through their hosts email address book
and send those addresses off to their masters.