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23 Oct 2007

How big is the Storm botnet? Email
The Storm worm has gotten a lot of press this year, with a lot of the coverage tending toward the apocalyptic. There's no question that it's one of the most successful pieces of malware to date, but just how successful is it?

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  posted at: 23:39 :: permanent link to this entry :: 1 comments
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/storm.html

20 Oct 2007

Thank heavens for class action lawyers Email

If you had an e-mail address any time in the past six years, you've probably gotten spam for something called VigRX for Men, with fairly specific promises that it will make you, ah, manlier.

I always wondered how many nitwits could fall for this kind of nonsense. Thanks to a recent class action settlement, we now know that there have been quite a lot of them. A class action suit filed in 2001 in Colorado settled recently, with some quite amazing info in the documents available at http://lemsettlement.com. LEM stands for Leading Edge Marketing, the name used by the defendants for several companies in the US, Canada, and the Bahamas.

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  posted at: 00:02 :: permanent link to this entry :: 2 comments
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/lemstuff.html

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