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Ratware is a fairly new term that is used to represent the underlying software used by mass-mailers (another equivalent word is spammers) to achieve their objective of delivering large amounts of email in a short span of time.
Ratware (spammers software) is capable of providing false or inaccurate information in SMTP dialogues with a view to impersonate, evade detection and spoofing.
Ratware is most often installed on Zombie computers through means of malware such as viruses, worms and trojan horses.
External Links
British youth sentenced for Randex worm [1] (http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/articles/randexyouth.html).
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