by Alex Eckelberry | Jan 27, 2008 | Uncategorized
Since late last week, we have been observing a fair number of spams with a Trojan payload, purporting to be a money transfer notification from Western Union. The spam looks like this (the attachment in this screenshot has been stripped by a scanner — the actual...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jan 26, 2008 | Uncategorized
Remember Julie Amero? Well, The Julie Group may have to start evaluating another project.This time, the story is in Florida — and at a school that’s not too far from our own Sunbelt headquarters. A school cop at Gulf Middle School, John Nohejl, created a MySpace page...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jan 26, 2008 | Uncategorized
My earlier blog post about the growth of malware has been getting some attention.There’s a slight clarification needed, which Andreas just pointed out to me:Could you please change the wording slightly to point out that the numbers are *not* cumulative, but that...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jan 26, 2008 | Uncategorized
If you haven’t gotten an invitation to join NotchUp lately, you’re probably in the minority. One person on a list I’m part of has counted 17 invitations in the past 14 hours. I’ve gotten a few. Curious, I decided to see how the...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jan 26, 2008 | Uncategorized
Earlier this week, Lavasoft confirmed in a lengthy post that it is in negotiations with IAC to bundle the Ask Toolbar. The rationalization for Lavasoft is that by doing this bundle, they have the opportunity to work with IAC in making real change in toolbar...