âTrojan horseâ program masquerades as anti-spam screensaver
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Get INQ7 breaking news on your Smart mobile phone in the Philippines. Send INQ7 BREAKING to 386. PARIS, France -- A virus that spies on keystrokes and downloads passwords and bank account details is circulating
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Chennai, Dec.9: An alert for a data-stealing Trojan horse programme that installs itself on computers by offering to fight spam has been sounded on the Internet, the New Scientist news service reported today.
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Paris - A virus that spies on keystrokes and downloads passwords and bank account details is circulating among e-mails. It masquerades as a screensaver designed by internet portal Lycos to attack spammers, a watchdog warned on Thursday.
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Just days after releasing a free screen saver program that uses computer downtime to swamp Web sites associated with spam, Lycos Europe has found itself caught in a fight with spammers.
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The Delf-HA Trojan horse infects PCs and then contacts a Russian Web site to download instructions for running a spam campaign. The Trojan sends spam SMS by using the &quot;Send a text message&quot; facility
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Internet firm Lycos UK released free screensaver software that allows users to attack spammers using the same mass mailing techniques the spammers themselves use to fill up the worldâs inboxes.
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This is really cool!  I finally get my own comment spam!  For some reason I felt left out of the party.  I just wasn't cool enough for the spammers to consider me worthy of their spam.  Anyway.  I implemented my own little turing test.  Now the comments say:  {{{  Turing Test: Are you a human? (required. Just type yes... this is for automated spam prevention)  }}}  While this wouldn't work for all blogs in the wild I'm sure it will work just fine here in my little corner of the blogosphere.  If spammers really want my blog enough then I'll deploy a captcha.  If they solve the captcha I'll deploy a sentient robot  which will traceroute packets back to the host and then terminate with prejudic ...
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Lycos Europe this week introduced a controversial weapon in the fight against spam: a screensaver that attacks spam Web sites. Lycos&#39; &quot;Make Love, Not Spam&quot; screensaver software is designed to use a PC&#39;s spare
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SPAM FIGHTING super hero software behemoth Microsoft has come up with a wizard way of stopping those who send spam from its free Hotmail accounts.
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A Trojan horse computer program that uses infected computers to churn out mobile phone spam messages is causing concern among antivirus firms.
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Over the past month, a new type of malicious software has emerged, using a decades-old technique to hide itself from antivirus software.
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&quot;It&#39;s the same old stuff we&#39;ve seen in all the Bagle variants over the last months. The authors have just modified it to evade detection of most antivirus programs and spammed it widely,&quot; said Mikko HyppÃ¶nen of F-Secure.
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Lycos Europe released a screen saver that would pepper spam sites with requests for pages, in an effort to burden their bandwidth.  Now it's disabled, but in very fixable ways...
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A TROJAN HORSE with a name that takes over a PC so that it sends SMS spam to mobile phones has been spotted in Russia. The Delf-HA Trojan contacts a Web site for details on which spam campaign to run and then
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Blog: E-mail supposedly from the I.R.S. hides a malicious attached file.
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Madrid - At the risk of breaching Internet civility, Lycos Europe is offering computer-users a weapon against spam-spewing servers: a screen-saver program that automatically hits the offenders with data to slow them down.
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Scam images sent as stationery backgrounds are the latest tactic in ducking antispam filters.