Archive for December 16th, 2009

Dismal statistics: Project Honey Pot marks one billion spam messages

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
Dismal statistics: Project Honey Pot marks one billion spam messages

Project Honey Pot has reported that sometime in November it received its one billionth spam message.“Every time Project Honey Pot receives a message we estimate that another 125,000 are sent to real victims. Our billionth message represents approxima... »

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Google Doodle search results poisoned

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
Google Doodle search results poisoned

Rogue anti-virus vendors yesterday used search engine optimization techniques to poison the Google search that resulted from visitors clicking on the Google Doodle – the art that periodically appears above the edit box on the Google front page.Th... »

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Like clockwork: the next member of the WiniGuard rogue family appears

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
Like clockwork: the next member of the WiniGuard rogue family appears

Friday we blogged about the three generations of the WiniGuard family of rogue security products that began in October of 2008. Friday, the 50th rogue in that line appeared. Analyst Patrick Jordan noted that there appeared to be a newly named clone add... »

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TheDefend

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
TheDefend

TheDefend is a phony security program, designed to scam people out of their money. If TheDefend is installed on your PC, you should remove it immediately.TheDefend uses scare tactics to frighten people into buying this phony software. These scare tac... »

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