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Spamming Trojan "Proxy Guzu"

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the brekaing-the-law dept.

squiggleslash writes "El Reg has the scoop on a trojan that actually turns your machine into a spam sending proxy. Called "Proxy Guzu", the proxy arrives in your mailbox in the usual "Outlook virus" way (ie disguised as something else so you'll run it.) It then sends an email to a Hotmail email account reporting the IP address of the infected machine and port it's running on. The spammer then merely transmits spam to the infected machine which in turn forwards it on. There's a bright side to all this: Spammers are doing this because they're desperate, with fewer and fewer spam friendly havens. And what they're doing is illegal and opens them up for prosecution."

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  1. Re:Uhh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Err, I'd have it post to somebody else's slashdot journal.

  2. Spammers doing something illegal?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I am shocked! They seemed like such good upstanding members of society.

  3. This isnt desperation... by acehole · · Score: 5, Funny

    Desperation is when they start selling the penis enlargers door to door.

    Seriously, has anyone actually *seen* one?

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    1. Re:This isnt desperation... by WindBourne · · Score: 3, Funny

      The real question should be: has anybody bought one or had a girlfriend/significant other that gave them one.
      Now, you have problems.

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    2. Re:This isnt desperation... by tigress · · Score: 4, Funny

      Oh, they come in pills now. My boyfriend tried them out for a month and he gained an amazing eight inches to his penis. Unfortunately, he also gained two cupsizes, lost 60 pounds and started receiving NBC and FOX.

  4. It opens them up to.... by sogoodsofarsowhat · · Score: 3, Funny

    (sees seens from commercial of guy getting on plane to go visit telemarketer in person) to a brutal beat down :) (one must also be careful of the submit button early on a sunday morning ... doh)

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  5. Re:Virus...? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I believe Mozilla.org have a program that will protect you from the virus.

  6. Re:Uhh by pohl · · Score: 5, Funny

    Somewhere in the world, a virus author adds a couple of bullet points to his TODO file.

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    The "cue the foo posts in 3, 2, 1..." posts will commence with no subsequent foo posts in 3, 2, 1...

  7. Re:I think I've seen something like this... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny


    That was an absolutely wonderful story. Make sure to tell the grandkids that one, they'll be absolutely enthralled.

    No really. I mean it.

  8. Does this virus affect Evolution? by TooLazyToLogon · · Score: 2, Funny

    or other Oulook like unix mail programs