Did you happen to read the guest post we had on click fraud and how easy it could be for unscrupulous companies to create fraudulent clicks?

As the Federal Trade Commission implores the world’s ISPs to help stop spam zombies, the software maker launches a new web site to help users with the spam issue.

Efforts by the Federal Trade Commission and government partners from over 20 other countries to cooperate in plan to stop PCs being used as conduits for unsolicited commercial e-mail.

Citing a vast number of compromised PCs being used as spam forwarders, the FTC wants help in shutting them down in Operation Spam Zombies.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) got a little help from its friends in attempts to fight the proliferation of spam. The Operation Spam Zombie program plans to wipe the undead er un-Internet menace out of the computing world. Much like an epidemic disease, spam mail runs rampant through computers all over the world and cuts down on the efficiency of the Internet by leaps and bounds.

“Zombies are playing a larger role in spam attacks,” said Andrew Lochart, director of product marketing at Postini. “Spam zombies are popping up all over the world, especially on the newer broadband networks.

I was walking along the beach front this week with the warm sunshine in my face.

Pressed by increasingly effective anti-spam efforts, senders of unsolicited commercial e-mail are resorting to outright criminality in their efforts to conceal the source of their ill-sent missives, using Trojan horses to turn the computers of innocent netizens into secret spam zombies.