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Archive for September 2004

Sep/04

30

Sophos dial home for UK porn

Yesterday Sophos, an anti-virus firm, removed detection of a "porn dialler application" after complaints from the UK developer.

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Zafi-B retains top slot for fourth consecutive month!

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Microsoft has ended free access to hotmail via the use of outlook and outlook express clients due to a rise in spam abuse…

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Sep/04

26

SpamAssassin 3.0.0 released

Spam Assassin, the popular open source spam filter has been updated to version 3, and is now available for download…

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Its a well known fact that spammers use the optout link to confirm email addresses, but a new variation is spreading with the optout link attempting to compromise vulnerable PCs.

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Raymond chen, a Microsoft employee has kept every single piece of spam since mid-1997.  The results were then put into a graph to show a visual representation of spam and viruses received for the last 6 years.

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Sep/04

17

The JPEG of death

On Tuesday Microsoft announced a critical vulnerability in its software’s handling of the ubiquitous JPEG graphics format; maybe you get a computer virus by looking at an image file afterall?

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Sep/04

15

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Sep/04

15

Bloggers spam war continues

Spammers are continuing to post links to their spam sites in comments sections of popular blogs to try and improve backlinks and search engine positioning.  The makers of blogs are now joining forces, this article looks at the current progress.

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Sep/04

14

Gmail phishing attempts

The following shows the following scam that is being sent to users of gmail, a phishing attempt posing as a gmail invite.

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