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A computer that has been implanted with open proxy software is called a zombie and can form part of a botnet used by spammers.
Socks is a networking proxy protocol that enables hosts on one side of a SOCKS server to gain full access to hosts on the other side of the SOCKS server without requiring direct IP-reachability.
An open socks proxy is a security hole used by spammers to hide their originating ip address.
Spam can made to appear to come from the socks proxy instead of the actual origin.
A reverse web proxy takes requests from website visitors and relays them to the protected spam website, returning any data it receives from the protected site back to the visitor.
To the visitor, the proxy itself appears to be the spam website, and there is no good way to tell that it is actually only a proxy.
An open proxy is a third-party computer that has been configured to serve spammers by untraceably relaying their mail, hosting, or guarding their websites, or performing other tasks.
Since the open proxies are controlled "by proxy" outside recognized channels, they provide effective cover for spammers.
An open proxy computer ("zombie") that is used for transmitting spam e-mail or supporting spam websites.
Typically, the owners of such computers do not know that their machines are open proxies, since the proxy code leaves little in the way of traceable data.
A botnet is a term usually applied to a group of open proxy computers ("zombies") used for spam transmission and related tasks.

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