Dark Mailer

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Dark Mailer is a controversial bulk e-mail sending program. It relies on zombie computers to send e-mail.

[edit] How It Works

The software taps into a network of zombie computers and is able to send 50,000 e-mail messages per hour from a regular cable modem connection. It affords near-total anonymity because of the networking and is often used by spammers^{[citation needed]}. Robert Soloway, one of Internet's biggest spammers, used it. It currently does not have an official website for downloading.

[edit] Cracks and Branches

Dark Mailer is the hub of quite a few mass spamming utilities. One of the most prominent is dm.cgi, a script which bombards predefined e-mail addresses using the CGI capabilities of compromised websites or whole servers.