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Old 21st Sep 2010, 12:06
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mixture
 
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Airclues

Of course there's no way that I'd do this, but I'm interested to know what would have happened if I did.
They would have planted a backdoor trojan/rootkit to enable them to return at a later date and/or make your computer part of a zombie network.

Piltdown Man

How about bombing these guys with emails?
Only if you wish to find yourself without an internet connection. ISPs quite rightly take a dim view of "email bombing" and will cut you off, no questions asked.... it is classified as a form of DoS attack.
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