Sobig likely arose from programmers in Russia who wanted to make a tool that would gather passwords and account numbers, while also letting spammers take control of other machines and use them to spew out millions of junk messages anonymously.
It still boggles my mind to think that responsible businessmen would think that you could takejunk mortgages and run them through your financial machines and have AAA rated bonds coming out the other side.
Earlier this year, Catalog Choice launched MailStop, an iPhone app that lets people take photos of junk mail and send them to Catalog Choice to be put on an opt-out list.