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Microsoft's Anti-spam Plan 'hijacked By Zombies'
News But this system would allow spammers to tap into the zombies' vast reserves of processing power and pre-solve lots of the puzzles in advance. One of Microsoft's plans to fight the spam epidemic is unlikely to adversely affect spammers or reduce the...
[June 4, 2004, 13:55]
Stopping Zombies, Botnets, And Other Email-borne Threats
White Papers Hijacked computers, or zombies, hide inside networks where they send spam, steal company secrets, and enable other serious crimes. This paper discusses how the threat has evolved, explains how zombie networks, or botnets, are created and highlights...
[April 8, 2008, 0:00]
Microsoft: Zombies Most Prevalent Windows Threat
News Many Windows PCs have been turned into zombies, but rootkits are not yet widespread, according to a Microsoft security report slated for release on Monday. More than 60 percent of compromised Windows PCs scanned by Microsoft's Windows Malicious...
[June 13, 2006, 9:20]
Are You A Spammer? Why Stopping Zombies Dead In Their Tracks Is Essential
White Papers Hijacked computers, or zombies, hide inside networks where they send spam, steal company secrets, and are used in other serious crimes. This paper explains how businesses are under constant attack from this fast-moving threat, and how zombies can...
[November 15, 2005, 23:00]
Brightmail's New Software Tackles Zombies
News Computers sending partial spam may be zombies -- PCs infected by a mass-mailer virus or Trojan horse. Brightmail has released a new version of its anti-spam software, Anti-Spam 6.0, which includes features designed to deal with zombie PCs, an...
[July 1, 2004, 14:30]
Web Outage Blamed On Zombies
News The computers are essentially turned into zombies, controllable from afar. The attack that blacked out Google, Yahoo and other major Web sites earlier this week involved the use of a "bot net" -- a large network of zombified home PCs -- Internet...
[June 17, 2004, 9:35]
Web Outage Blamed On Zombies
Talkback Please let me know if you get an answer to this. I am blocking these thougsands of emails but they still keep coming. The email address is inet@microsoft.com
[September 23, 2004, 15:45]
Web Outage Blamed On Zombies
Talkback Currently under viscious attack from inet@microsoft.com some of which contain virus Erkez.B@mm. Efforts to prevent them arriving on the server have failed and even by utilising the Outlook Express blockers the onslaught still arrives in the...
[September 15, 2004, 14:13]
Microsoft: Zombies Most Prevalent Windows Threat
Talkback What about the statistics threat? Meaning playing the number game with most likely hits detectors targeting mass volumes. Thus leaving those victimized by undetected rootkits and tailor made intrusions with a false sense of security and no "market...
[June 14, 2006, 23:12]
Web Outage Blamed On Zombies
Talkback On Monday I had a major influx of e-mails resulting in my mail server overloading and crashing due to the excessive reporting of the attack of the zombies. Two attacks, one from email inet@microsoft.com and another from mgrant@caveshepherd.com.
[June 18, 2004, 10:44]
Web Outage Blamed On Zombies
Talkback Clearly if users are unable to acces a root domain server, then the amount of traffic on the internet will drop. The amount of DNS bandwidth is very small compared with the amount of domain-name specified data bandwidth (HTTP(S),SMTP,FTP for a start).
[June 22, 2004, 14:30]
Web Outage Blamed On Zombies
Talkback I have had this problem now three times, the most recent occurance is October 26th and still continues today. Can anyone tell me how I can prevent this from happening? Help, Karen
[October 29, 2004, 17:04]
Web Outage Blamed On Zombies
Talkback I have had this problem now three times, the most recent occurance is October 26th and still continues today. Can anyone tell me how I can prevent this from happening? Help, Karen
[October 29, 2004, 19:27]
IPhone 'winners' Become Zombies
News As Apple's new gadget sells out across the US, spammers are exploiting the situation by sending emails that try to dupe recipients into thinking they have won a brand new iPhone of their own. Web-filtering specialist Secure Computing is warning...
[July 2, 2007, 12:30]
Sophos Picks Fight With Small-business Zombies
News Antivirus company Sophos launched a security software product on Monday that aims to help smaller businesses protect their PCs from being hijacked and used as spam relays. UK-based Sophos estimates that more than one-third of all spam is sent from...
[April 19, 2004, 13:45]
Trojan Alert: 'David Beckham' Recruits Zombies
News A new attempt to entice users to fall victim to a Trojan horse has been discovered by antivirus firm Sophos, after it was posted on a swathe of Internet news groups over the weekend. The message claims to contain pictures of English footballer...
[October 12, 2004, 16:40]
Zombies
Talkback Until there's a significant and permanent drop in zombied or otherwise compromised systems in the world I know what my conclusion is of the security of this or that. It's been only, what, 10 years now or so to make that happen but quite the...
[March 24, 2007, 21:49]
Fake Jacko Movie Tries To Recruit Zombies
News Hackers are pointing users to a phoney video of Michael Jackson to coax them into downloading a Trojan horse. The movie, which hackers posted links to on newsgroups, supposedly displays Jackson performing "un-natural acts" with a boy, reported...
[October 15, 2004, 17:25]
Spyware: Best Practices For Fighting An Emerging Security Threat - A Forrester Webcast Brought To You By Sophos
White Papers Hijacked computers, or zombies, hide inside networks where they send spam, steal company secrets, and are used in other serious crimes. This on-demand Forrester Webcast explains how businesses are under constant attack from this fast-moving threat...
[November 28, 2005, 23:00]
Zombie Masters Hunted Down
News Hoping to turn the tide on spam zombies, Microsoft has filed suit against entities it said used compromised PCs to send millions of junk email messages. The company has identified 13 different spamming operations that use such zombies, it said late...
[October 31, 2005, 9:35]
