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[News] New Year Brings New Windows Zombies, SPAM

'Happy New Year' Worm Spawns Computer Zombies

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| Verisign is warning of a new worm that travels via e-mail with
| the subject "Happy New Year!" Users who open an attached executable
| file trigger installation of several different malicious code
| variants on their computers, which then execute mass mailings.
| The worm, which is already being heavily spammed, is being sent
| via over 160 domains, the security company said.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/54920.html


Related:

Cyber Crime Hits the Big Time in 2006

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| Spam volumes are often viewed as a barometer for the relative security
| of the Internet community at large, in part because most spam is
| relayed via "bots," a term used to describe home computers that
| online criminals have compromised surreptitiously with a computer
| virus or worm. The more compromised computers that the bad guys control
| and link together in networks, or "botnets," the greater volume of spam
| they can blast onto the Intenet.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/22/AR2006122200367.html

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