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Malicious Spam Spikes To 'Epic' Level
Trailrunner7 writes "There has been a huge spike in spam volume in the last few days, including a massive amount of malicious spam with infected attachments, and researchers say that levels of junk mail are now far higher than they were before the takedown of the notorious Spamit affiliate program last fall. The huge spike comes at a time when spam should, in fact, be dropping because of the takedown of the Rustock botnet, the Spamit network and other botnets. 'From the beginning of August, we have observed a huge surge of malicious spam which far exceeds anything we have seen over the past two years, including prior to the SpamIt takedown last October. The majority of the malicious spam comes from the Cutwail botnet, although Festi and Asprox are among the other contributors,' M86 researcher Rodel Mendrez said."
If these knuckleheads ever learn correct English, we're screwed.
A security company with 11 products designed to solve your spam problem, has made a picture showing a bombastic and ludicrous increase in spam the likes of which you cannot possibly cope with. This spam targets your genitals using african money laundering transfers to smuggle a dirty bomb into your new nike jordans and boochi bags at 80% discount, and free shipping.
It is imperative you believe this un-renound seldom-published security engineer working for a vague corporation that runs its main website on a dated version of microsoft IIS 6.0 with ASP. this company worked hard to ensure its pretty pictures had maximum market placement, and slashdot is no exception.
Good people go to bed earlier.
Whindows partitions getting whiped and their machines whork? Suddenly? I can't whait!
Am I the only person who reads this in a robot voice?
Amazing how much of email traffic is spam, mind boggling.
Indeed. I just can't get my boss to stop.
Oh it ain't just the old folks, you can get the others just by changing up the tactic. Back in the day my admin buddy Glenn ended up getting hauled before the regional head of the bunch he was working for by a PHB that wanted to have him fired because, and I quote "You have NO RIGHT to tell ME who I can and can't speak to! You WILL allow my emails from Melissa through this very minute!". That's right folks, he was actually fighting for the right to get infected!
Oh and for the moron that ALWAYS ends up posting some "Give them Linux!" total horseshit? Won't work dumbass. number one Linux is a fiddly little bitch so unless you are gonna pay an army of admins to go out and do the forum dance to fix all the fucked drivers with all that funky Chinese hardware, which BTW on consumer goods most likely NEVER had a Linux driver ever written, certainly not by the OEM? good luck Chuck.
Second as a social experiment I actually tried that with a "Must click on teh porn password emails!" type of dumbass. I gave him either Mepis or PCLOS, I can't remember which. So what happened, was it him and RMS dancing through the flowers? Nope he broke that sucker in less than a week, had Linux completely unbootable. How did he do that? Simple he didn't like that whole package management bullshit so he went and Google'd what he wanted, downloaded a bunch of shit off of Freshmeat, and promptly put the machine in dependency hell.
So can we please quit the "give them Linux!" crap already? the people that are infected by shit like this simply don't have the skills to deal with the 6 month upgrade deathmarch, the forum dance where you do the two step looking for fixes, nor have the ability to tweak said fixes because they were written for hardware f rev g and they have hardware h rev k. And the people that DO have the skills? Well they ain't clicking on stupid email attachments so they have no problem running Windows. Maybe when you make a Linux where drivers don't break, the OS don't need to be upgraded every six months, and the CLI has been permanently removed, maybe then Linux will work for the people in TFA. Yeah and when that day comes I'll be riding a purple pony with She-Ra.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.