Latest Stock Spam Strategy Uses PDFs
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| Five billion spam messages flooded the Internet on Wednesday in
| a realistic-looking pump-and-dump scam that had its intended
| effect of boosting trading volume for German-based Talktech Telemedia.
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| The outbreak, which represented 9 percent of all e-mail traffic, making it
| one of the 10 largest outbreaks of 2007, was distributed by over 75,000
| zombie PCs. The top three locations of these zombies were the U.S., Spain,
| and Germany. Recipients of the attack were mainly in Europe.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20070621/tc_nf/53224
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Microsoft is the world's biggest cause of zombie remailers
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| In China, it would take about one and one-half years wages (for the
| average Chinese) to buy a legitimate copy of Windows Vista. If you
| could find it here.
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| Microsoft is the biggest cause of zombie remailers in the world,
| because they make noises, but do not do anything to address the
| real digital inequities in the world.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38202
Botnet 'pandemic' threatens to strangle the net
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| Cerf estimated that between 100 million and 150 million of the
| 600 million PCs on the internet are under the control of hackers,
| the BBC reports.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/26/botnet_threat/
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