Sounds like it’s time to start kicking some more subscribers out or at least cutting off their email services until they get their computers out of zombie mode.

Now someone from Comcast is confirming it. “We’re the biggest spammer on the Internet,” network engineer Sean Lutner said at a meeting of an antispam working group in Washington, D.C., last week. Lutner said Comcast users send out about 800 million messages a day, but a mere 100 million flow through the company’s official servers. Almost all of the remaining 700 million represent spam erupting from so-called zombie computers–a breathtaking figure that adds up to six or seven spam-o-grams for each American family every day.

Personal responsibility in computing is no small deal and many netizens are paying the price for negligent users.

Did this post make you go hmm?

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