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  • Trojan alert: 'David Beckham' recruits zombies

    A new attempt to entice users to fall victim to a Trojan horse has been discovered by antivirus firm Sophos, after it was posted on a swathe of Internet news groups over the weekend.

  • Spammers get fussy as zombie army grows

    The Bobax worm, which is less than a week old but has already spawned four variants, is one of the first worms to conduct a bandwidth test on its infected host to see if it is worthy of being used as a spam zombie.

  • Virus authors choosing to infect fewer people

    Virus authors are choosing not to create global epidemics -- such as Melissa or Blaster -- because that distracts them from their core business of creating and selling zombie networks, according to anti-virus experts.

  • US leads the dirty dozen spammers

    The United States is in a league of its own when it comes to sending junk mail to email users.

  • Spammers use your cat's name to sell you Viagra

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  • Messagelabs: Clean up Net effluent now

    Messagelabs CTO Mark Sunner claims that ISPs allowing unfiltered traffic to flow to customers is like a water authority pumping out raw sewage. Additional reading: Microsoft reward snags suspected Sasser author

  • Who are these virus writers?

    commentary Who takes the time and effort to pull off malicious stunts, like viruses, malware, worms, Trojans, or any other deliberately damaging actions? And why?

  • Watch out: It's virus season again

    Virus writers seem to be trying every trick they can these days to infect our computers, but we can fight back. How? For starters, says Robert, try updating Windows frequently.

  • Part I: Most popular security issues

    Executives under arrest, charging for e-mail, rogue staff, e-mail spoofing, spyware: it's all here in your first raft of questions to our panel of experts. Additional reading: Beat malware with Firefox, others

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