WHAT IS A MAIL BOMBER?
A mail bomber is a computer program designed to flood user e-mail boxes with excessive amount of e-mail messages or letters with extremely large attached files. Such messages usually contain different advertising information and therefore are being sent for marketing and spamming purposes. A mail bomber is not a parasite or viral application. However, its activity not only is annoying, but also affects user computers and ISP mail servers by degrading their performance and severely decreasing Internet connection speed. A mail bomber can be installed on any computer connected to the Internet. It usually runs not on the affected system, but on the hacker’s PC. However, a mail bomber can also be installed on a compromised computer in order to use it as an illegal mail server. Mail bombers are divided into legitimate applications and tools designed by hackers or spammers for their needs. Both mail bomber types are very similar to each other and can be used for same purposes. The only differ
