Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Four-fifths of spam now emanates from computers contaminated with Trojan horse infections, according to a study by network management firm Sandvine out this week. Trojans and worms with backdoor components such as Migmaf and SoBig have turned infected Windows PCs into drones in vast networks of compromised zombie PCs.
Sandvine reckons ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Reported by Lockergnome
TNT Computers President Tim D. Ingrum writes:
After all this is said and read, I know that there'll be a few of you who just have to open that e-mail attachment to see what it is! You're the "clickers" that have just gotta see what's behind that Paper Clip. ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Symantec Security Response has developed a removal tool to clean the W32.Sobig.F@mm infections. The W32.Sobig.F@mm Removal Tool does the following: Terminates the W32.Sobig.F@mm viral processes. Deletes the W32.Sobig.F@mm files. Deletes the dropped files. Deletes the registry values that the worm added.
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sobig.f@mm.removal.tool
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