And this is why you see so much spam

By infecting two machines with two different known spam Trojans (Trojan-Proxy.Win32.Lager.gen and FiveSec.Spam.Agent.vx), we were able to capture over 6,000 image spam messages in a period of only 35 minutes (the spam bots were running at different times). Incidentally, these trojans are coming through Vxgames installs (nasty malware distributors).

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