Archive for September 2004
Yesterday Sophos, an anti-virus firm, removed detection of a "porn dialler application" after complaints from the UK developer.
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Top ten viruses and hoaxes reported to Sophos in September 2004
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Microsoft scraps WebDav access to hotmail in attempt to reduce spam
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Microsoft has ended free access to hotmail via the use of outlook and outlook express clients due to a rise in spam abuse…
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Spam Assassin, the popular open source spam filter has been updated to version 3, and is now available for download…
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Its a well known fact that spammers use the optout link to confirm email addresses, but a new variation is spreading with the optout link attempting to compromise vulnerable PCs.
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Raymond chen, a Microsoft employee has kept every single piece of spam since mid-1997. The results were then put into a graph to show a visual representation of spam and viruses received for the last 6 years.
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On Tuesday Microsoft announced a critical vulnerability in its software’s handling of the ubiquitous JPEG graphics format; maybe you get a computer virus by looking at an image file afterall?
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