Saturday, March 8th, 2008 New spam emails can turn vulnerable PCs into spam-spreading 'zombies'.The spam has a link which purports to allow users to opt out of future emails. However, MessageLabs, an e-mail filtering company, warns that these links are part of a scam and, if clicked on, will turn a victim's PC into ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008 Users should be wary of pressing the 'click here to remove' link on spam messages because it serves to confirm to spammers that junk mail messages are being read. Such email addresses can be sold at a premium to other spammers.That's reason enough to simply delete spam messages, but a ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008 Scott Rolf knows trouble when he sees it. An IT director for a law firm near Cleveland, Ohio, Rolf was asked by a friend to check out the new Web site the friend had put up on a DSL-connected Web server. Rolf did more than just visit his friend's site; ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008 The latest mass-mailing worm, Atak, hides by going to sleep when it suspects that antivirus software is trying to detect it.Atak was first discovered Monday. Although antivirus companies do not expect it to cause much damage, they say it will be a nuisance because it can generate a ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008 More than 100 Web servers running Microsoft's Internet Information Services software are still infected with malicious code that was part of a widespread Internet attack, known as Scob, or Download.ject, that began two weeks ago, a security researcher says.Dan Hubbard director of security and technology research at Websense Inc., a ...
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