'Spam King' Buys House

And we aren't talking about the guy that likes canned ham. Alan Ralsky is ranked as one of the top 5 email spammers around and after reading the article it come to my attendion that spammers are really 3v1l but the companies that hire them are the ones to blame. Here is a snip of 3v1ln355
"Ralsky, meanwhile, is looking at new technology. Recently he's been talking to two computer programmers in Romania who have developed what could be called stealth spam.

It is intricate computer software, said Ralsky, that can detect computers that are online and then be programmed to flash them a pop-up ad, much like the kind that display whenever a particular Web site is opened.

"This is even better," he said. "You don't have to be on a Web site at all. You can just have your computer on, connected to the Internet, reading e-mail or just idling and, bam, this program detects your presence and up pops the message on your screen, past firewalls, past anti-spam programs, past anything."
Sounds like a virus to me.

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