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Story: Vista vulnerable to malware from 2004

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Posted by: bigfootman (Friday 1 December 2006, 9:24 PM)

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hmmm still think this is unlikely

What type of e-mail address are we talking here something configured in outlook or web e-mail address? So you are saying that you visited a website, the website took advantage of some security hole in ie. Then installed some kind of root kit, virus or custom rouge code which then searched your machine found an e-mail account configured in outlook. Then uploaded this information to a server somewhere which added you to a spam list and now you are getting spammed a lot?

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