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Story: Vista vulnerable to malware from 2004

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Posted by: bigfootman (Monday 4 December 2006, 9:42 PM)

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Fair comments

Correct could be a key logger. I just haven't seen something before which has such an immediate turn around to spamming e-mail addresses. So as far as malware/hacks go this one seems pretty sophisticated. You are right to point out that we can only expect to see more of this in the future.

If you get a positive identification in terms of recognised malware I would be interested to find out what it was. More than likely a custom attack particularly if the spams were associated with the website in question.

Thanks.

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