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Malicious E-Cards - An Analysis of Spam

Posted by Hemos on from the dissecting-the-spam dept.

smashr writes "I ran across this article the other day which is a rather clear analysis of a piece of malicious spam the author received. While most of us simply hit the delete key, the author has taken the time to see exactly what is going on when an innocent user clicks on one of these fake e-cards that are going around. From Russian spyware sites to over-writing wmplayer.exe this particular piece of spam is a rather nasty one."

2 of 482 comments (clear)

  1. ok.... by clester · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Phew, that would be scary if I used Windows....

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    -- Real programmers don't comment their code. It was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
  2. Bah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Doesn't affect me, Console e-mail with Mutt is the way to go. Mutt works on Cygwin, so Windows users don't have an excuse.