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Is your PC blog yours alone?

by biverson | August 30, 2007 at 09:08 am

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I have been out of town and not checking email and internet as is my usual habit. This kind of took me by surprise. I hadn't heard about this kindo of attack, but the fact that they are sending out 4-6% of the world's spam each day is both scary and impressive. I guess it might be good to check one's PC for this kind of infection when this type of story comes out. My Mac now runs Windows, so I guess I could be a target, too.

Security experts estimate that the group can send out so much junk mail because they have hijacked so many Windows PCs via successive campaigns. Some suspect that the group has infected more than one million PCs over the last eight months.

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pgaliba

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at 11:10 on August 30th, 2007

biverson, I like this story. It's good stuff.

Jordan Yerman

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at 12:59 on August 30th, 2007

Thanks very much for the heads-up, biverson. All you blogsters out there, you can investigate links posted to your blog (or anywhere online) by right-clicking on the link and selecting "properties"(Command-click with Mac laptops and older Mac mice), or by hovering over the link in FireFox.

Spam blogs (splogs, slogs) are fairly easy to spot, as they tend to be single-issue, light on content, contain very few posts, and be full of liks/AdSense.

Remember, kids: look before you click, because there are bad guys out there.