Saturday, March 8th, 2008
So says the Radicati Group, which Wednesday released preliminary results of a survey showing that it's bad behavior on the part of users -- us, in other words -- driving the spam and virus threat.
And you thought it was spammers and hackers.
"Frankly, it surprised us that users ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
A Trojan which uses infected PCs to send spam messages to mobile phone users has been discovered. Delf-HA Trojan horse sends spam SMS messages by using the free "Send a text message" facility found on the websites of several Russian mobile network operators. Infected PCs download instructions on the content ...
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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
A very nasty trend is developing in the world of malware. At risk is your credit card number, social security number and, indeed, your entire identity.
Criminals are distributing spam emails which purport to link to details of a fictitious credit card order. If someone clicks that link and is running ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Computer viruses spread by e-mail are growing more sophisticated as virus writers and spammers are thought to be joining forces in an effort to make smarter bugs, a computer security group said Tuesday.
New York-based MessageLabs, which scans client e-mails for viruses to block, said it picked apart some ...
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