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Another Worm Targets Anti-Spam Sites

Posted by timothy on from the heads-on-sticks-please dept.

kevinvee writes "Yahoo! is reporting about the next battle of Spam Houses versus Spamhauses. This time, its W32/Mimail-L receiving the attention. "It's the third Mimail variation to come after us, except this one is trying to do more," said Steve Linford, founder of The Spamhaus Project. Apparently this reincarnation comes as an attachment offering naked photographs. Once infected, a follow-up e-mail is sent to the user stating that a CD containing child pornography will be delivered to their postal address. "These guys write trojan (viruses), they carry out DDOS attacks and they get their money through selling stolen credit cards and spamming," Linford said."

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  1. Beware.... goatse troll by sean.peters · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Someone with mod points please blow away this post. The tiny url redirects to goatse...

    Sean

  2. Naked photographs by jimm · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Quick, someone clothe the photographs. At least stuff them into an envelope or something.

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  3. THE PARENT POSTER IS A KARMA-WHORING TROLL! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Read his journal. In it, he admits to the following:

    He is the former Sir Haxalot/Pingular, well-known for crapfloods and karma-whore posts.

    He reposts older highly-moderated comments using the anti-Slash database tool in an effort to boost his own karma.

    He must be stopped. Mod him as "overrated" to lower his posts score and deny him precious karma, while avoiding the wrath of meta-mod. Thank you, and please spread this message after his posts to let everyone know of the dangers of this man.