Less Spam, Fewer Zombies

The free reigning days of spam king Robert Alan Soloway may finally be at end. For years it has been alleged that Soloway used botnet infected computers (known as Zombie PCs) to flood email inbox with spam. Much of that spam was in the form of hate email directed at Microsoft. Last week, according to Seattle news KOMO-TV, a federal grand jury leveraged a 35-count indictiment against Soloway, "charging him with mail fraud, wire fraud, e-mail fraud, aggravated identity theft and money laundering." That indictiment led to last Wednesday's arrest of Soloway. He has entered a plea of not guilty. With Soloway off the streets, hopefully we can look forward not just to less spam, but also to less of the Trojans used to create botnets as well.

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