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Record-Setting Spam Effort Turns Computers into Zombies
(LiveScience.com)
LiveScience.com - Unseen, unnamed forces are barraging you with lies, and if you weaken and believe them your computer will be turned into a zombie.
No, that’s not a blurb for a bad sci-fi movie—it’s a description of what’s happening on any desktop containing an Internet-connected PC. Before the month is even done, April has set a record for virus e-mails, thanks to a virulent and successful malware called the Storm Virus, Adam Swidler, a manager at Postini Inc., a spam filter service in San Carlos, CA, told LiveScience. ... View the Entire Article
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