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April 2007 - Posts

• Storm Worm

  The storm worm trojan spam outbreak that started last Thursday (which we reported on here ) pushed global virus levels to 60 times the normal daily average. Users should continue to be on the lookout for "love" and "worm alert" related subject lines and Read More... Posted Monday, April 16, 2007 6:25 PM by Joel | 1 Comments Filed under: Malware, storm worm, trojan, virus

• Email Virus Outbreak

  An email with the attached text picture is circulating heavily today. The message appears to be from a service provider and tells the recipient that they are infected with a virus and need to download and run the attached password protected file to fix Read More... Posted Thursday, April 12, 2007 4:53 PM by Joel | 1 Comments Attachment(s): robot virus.JPG

• Britney Spears Spam Campaign Tied To .ANI Exploit Flaw

  We have seen a rash of obvious spam touting vulgar pictures of Britney Spears this week. Users receive an email with the subject line "Hot Pictures of Britiney Speers" that is written in HTML and has anti-spam avoidance text within the HTML comments. Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 04, 2007 5:02 PM by Joel | 2 Comments Filed under: Spam, Malware, Trojans, .ANI Exploit

• Exchange and NDR Spam

  Directory Harvest Attacks Can Turn You Into an NDR Spammer If you don’t know what Exchange Recipient Filtering is, then your company may be sending out spam. Many of our customers and friends run Exchange servers, so we like to periodically discuss Exchange Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 03, 2007 3:05 PM by Joel | 1 Comments Filed under: Exchange Best Practices, NDR Spam

• Virus Disguised as Internet Explorer Download

  A malware campaign with several variations of emails appearing to come from Microsoft encouraging readers to click on a link to download IE Explorer updates is currently making the rounds. The malware is delivered when readers click on the link (usually Read More... Posted Monday, April 02, 2007 1:32 PM by Joel | 2 Comments Filed under: Malware