In our ongoing effort to track new spam trends and pass it along to help users avoid opening malicious mail, we will will now be updating our main news feed with observed threats on our networks, filters and gateways. Stay tuned!
Archive for November, 2009
Current Spam Trends – Weekly update
Monday, November 30th, 2009Your mailbox has *NOT* been deactivated
Monday, November 16th, 2009We are seeing alot of spam that your account has been deactivated, this along with a flood of Verizon wireless emails seem to be the work of Zbot spammers. Verizon wireless would never request that you run a program for your bill, nor would we or any other firm request you download or load anything to disable an account. These messages are carrying a payload and recommend deleting them right away. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions!
26 Years of computer Viruses
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009Today marks the 26th anniversary of the concept of a computer virus. The level of infection and scope of variants were beyond the wildest dreams of the original presentation and concept. There is great article here at wired about it.