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Story: Vista vulnerable to malware from 2004

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Not so funny

I don't really know whether to continue this discussion.

However, I didn't use the keyboard or provide any information, I only viewed some images on the site and was almost immediately spammed in duplicate to the two email addresses (entered in both Outlook and Windows Mail) on my Vista computer (I have eight email addresses on my primary XP computer). The initial spam was clearly linked to the site visited, it said so in the header. Therefore I presume a crafted mischievious image as the source and that Vista, and Trend Micro Suite, was not proof against it. Of course, third party security software is not yet fully compatible with Vista.

The consequence is that my main email address is now severely spammed to the point where I'll have to abandon it and my personalised A-Tails email address may also have to be abandoned although, for some unknown reason, not so severely compromised

Separately, I always wonder why other spam which is not correctly addressed to me actually ends up in my email account(s) at all.

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