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Based on reports by wired.com, clickz.com, zdnet.com, and many other online news outlets, email spammers/hackers have infected thousands of corporate computers inside Pfizer, Bank of America, and Toshiba with malware called “zombies” or “bots” that act as email “relays” in order to anonymously forward their spam messages to the public.

In Pfizer’s case, the email messages end up in the Inboxes of the general public with fake return addresses, such as, the popular Google gmail.com, giving the emails an innocent appearance. The content of the emails vary, but many of them appear to have been designed to sell the Pfizer’s own erectile dysfunction product, Viagra.

According to zdnet.com “At least 138 of Pfizer’s IP addresses are being used to send the spam after being loaded with Trojan software”. However, security experts say that the real number of infected computers is impossible to determine because most of the computers are behind the company’s corporate firewall which obscures the computer’s internal IP address.

Some bloggers are taking a stab at linkbaiting by implying that Pfizer might be deliberately dragging their feet in the clean up process, since the “dreaded spam” is selling their most popular and very expensive product, Viagra.

Top 3 Blog Blurbs

Chris Gilmer, downloadsquad.com

“There is no word from Pfizer whether they know what’s going on inside their own computer network yet. Maybe they are keeping it a little hush hush for now until quarterly earnings prove that the hacker’s efforts are affecting their bottom lines in a good way.”

Michael Santo, Executive Editor, RealTechNews

“Viagra is a Pfizer product, so perhaps they’re not too upset about the spamming. Naah. PCs at Pfizer have been hijacked by trojans, which are using them to forward Viagra spam. What can you say? Hilarious.”

unkown author, noticebored.com

“…At least 138 Pfizer computers have been blacklisted for distributing spam for drugs such as Viagra, a Pfizer product, and Cialis, a competitor’s product. The computers have presumably been taken over as ‘bots’ or ‘zombies’, remotely controlled by the hackers and used to distribute spam…. surprisingly, Pfizer is not saying much about it.”

Personally, I understand Pfizer being quiet on this issue. After all, their company’s security has been breached, hundreds of their employee’s computers hijacked; there is really not much they can say in their own defense. Pfizer does take the offensive where they are able. For example, in the Netherlands, Pfizer has launched a radio advertising campaign to deter email spam warning consumers that 97 per cent of the pills offered via email spam are counterfeit and pose a serious health hazard. It’s a start, reportedly about 55% of men in the Netherlands say that they receive Viagra email spam.

Pfizer has also teamed up with Microsoft to file seventeen parallel lawsuits against two “international pharmacy spam rings”.