Archive for August, 2008

If Your e-mail Address Starts With A You Get 10% More Spam!

Continue Reading Add comment August 28th, 2008

An interesting article that analyzed spam sent to both real and fake e-mail addresses over an 8 week period which shows that e-mail accounts that start with some letters get more spam than others. (Aardvarks vs. Zebra in the article).

In The Fight Against Spam Dutch Police Notify Users Infected with Bot Malware

Continue Reading Add comment August 13th, 2008

Dutch police have notified people whose computers were infected with malware that made them part of a botnet comprising more than 100,000 PCs. People were redirected to a web page containing directions on disabling the malware and a link to an online virus scanner.

“Bud Has Mail” – Watchguard Videos Worth Watching

Continue Reading Add comment August 6th, 2008

In the Internet Age online videos are becoming more and more prevalent as they are easily distributed and are often more effective at getting a point across then forcing the visitor to read a bunch of text.

With this in mind Watchguard released some nice video tutorials about network security that are entertaining and have some excellent ideas worth showing your average user.

TechRepublic – “Storm Worm: The Energizer Bunny of Botnets”

Add comment August 6th, 2008

Apart from a great title this is a very interesting read on what the Storm Worm is up to these days.

- Shaun

Original article: http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/networking/?p=620&tag=nl.e102

In the world of botnets, Storm isn

New Spam Campaign – using CNN’s Daily Top 10 format

Add comment August 4th, 2008

A warning that we are seeing he beginning of a new spam campaign with a possible exploit vector. The e-mails claim to be from CNN based on the subject line but the from e-mail address are not at CNN. They also have links to videos and will probably either silently install malware or prompt you to install the


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Shaun Sturby, MCSE Technical Services Manager, and Optrics' point person for email security
Shaun Sturby, MCSE