Archive for July, 2007

Worm eats music on infected PCs

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

This MP3 collection will self-destruct after reboot
Virus writers have unleashed a worm that attempts to delete MP3 files from infected machines.…

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Mario worm targets retro gamers

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

VXers deploy Donkey Kong ruse
Infected emails doing the rounds on the net on Monday promise the chance to run one of the classic Super Mario Bros games by clicking on an attachment.…

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Spamford Wallace banished from MySpace

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

Flooded site with a million messages
Sanford Wallace, perhaps the world’s most persistent and reviled spammer, has been banished from MySpace by a federal judge who ruled the social networking site is likely to prevail in a lawsuit that claims Wallace flooded MySpace with more than 1m come-ons related to gambling-related sites.…

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Spammers dump images, switch to PDF files

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

Cat-and-mouse
Foiled by increasingly accurate corporate spam filters, spammers have dumped pictures for PDFs in their bulk emailings, according to the latest data from security firms.…

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The return of the ransom-ware Trojan

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

Malware with menaces
Virus writers are revisiting the tactic of holding data on compromised machines to ransom with a new strain of so-called “ransom-ware” Trojan.…

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