Spam ride U.S. Financial Crisis
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Spammers has mercy. In crisis conditions finasial that threaten the United States and the world, they seek profit.
It is one of the reported computer security company Symantec in October 2008 spam report Thursday (9/10/2008). “With the advantage of deep concern to this case, the spammers hope to collect personal information from their target,” said on the report.
Spam senders are often utilize the latest issue to fishing in the victims. Beside the financial crisis, the news about the presidential election in the United States also the targets.
Not only to distribute e-mail campaign or collect data personal, spam is also used to spread malicious programs.
Symantec recorded an increase in the number of e-mail programs that bring hazardous since June 2008. Mentioned that the most malicious programs spread in the form of files. Zip or. Exe (compressed). In addition, there is also a message that it contains malicious code inside.
Until mid-September 2008 the percentage of e-mail programs that bring hazardous reached 1.2 percent. This is a sharp increase from only 0.1 percent in June 2008.
Data is collected from users Symantec antivirus software. Measured data from all the e-mail messages, both spam and genuine.
Symantec also noted the spam that offers a unique tool to see through clothes outstanding in September 2008. Unique spam is of course simply trying to get personal data, which tricked the victim petition.
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