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[News] [Rival] Complaints About 'Windows Spewage' Rising, iPhone Used as Bait That Exploits Windows/IE Flaws

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Complaints About 'Windows Spewage' Rising, iPhone Used as Bait That Exploits Windows/IE Flaws
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 14:30:44 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Spam reports rising 

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| Over 96 per cent of malicious emails for June were phishing attempts, 
| followed by pesky netsky, stration, bagle and mytop as the next big hitters 
| respectively.  
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40718

iPhone bait in malware attack

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| Spam messages claiming the recipient has won an iPhone are being 
| used to attract victims to a web site that tries to install a 
| rootkit and spambot malware by exploiting ten ActiveX vulnerabilities.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13268&Itemid=1054


Related:

Hotmail still riddled with spam

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| Microsoft has admitted that up to 98 per cent of messages sent to
|                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| Hotmail addresses are spam. 
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| 
| [...]
| 
| The findings will disappoint Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, who
| predicted at the 2004 Davos World Economic Forum that spam would
| be "eliminated" within two years. 
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http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2188226/hotmail-riddled-spam-admits


Month of ActiveX bugs project begins with two Office flaws

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| A hacker known as shinnai kicked off his "Month of ActiveX Bugs"
| (MoAxB) project with a bang by exposing a number of severe
| vulnerabilities affecting OCX controls in Microsoft Office.
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http://scmagazine.com/us/news/article/654659/month-activex-bugs-project-begins-two-office-flaws/


Vista still vulnerable

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| Vulnerabilities in Windows Vista will plague users in coming months
| and years, a prominent security researcher warns, despite its
| security improvements over predecessor XP.
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http://www.smh.com.au/news/security/vista-still-vulnerable/2007/02/26/1172338546822.html
http://tinyurl.com/2o82lf

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