[Scspamcop] Re: low importance - anyone know what this spammer is peddling?

[Ant]

"Miss Betsy" wrote:

> "Gideon_70" wrote:
>> Or a virus code that only attacks the spammers themselves?  Say, a faked
>> header enables it?  Laughing, that would be a better use than recreating
>> the "Stoned" virus.
>
> Is there a way to issue a challenge to those who might be able to do it?
> As in, "Bet you can't do that!"

Spammers often use malware to hijack user machines to send spam.
There is evidence in some trojans that spammers try to disable the
malware of their competitors.

Now you could ask for a virus or worm to be developed that would
target particular infections and try to clean hijacked machines.
That would be a very tall order when you consider anti-virus products
are not usually able to restore a PC automatically to a completely
stable infection-free state.