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Story: Spammers get fussy as zombie army grows

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Just a quick comment on fairness and honesty...

Every time I go to the Microsoft Update site for critical downloads my machine gets infected with spyware.

No one can convince me any more that it isn't Microsoft doing it. I use a very good firewall with filter rules in place to stop TCP and other protocols inbound. I should be safe.

So how could hackers be accessing my computer during download sessions unless either Microsoft's servers were still compromised or the latter was complicit in the infecting of clients with data-mining components?

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