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Microsoft has won court endorsement to shut down a global network of computers which it says is guilty for more than 1.5bn spam messages every day.

A US judge approved the firm's request to shut down 277 internet domains, which it said were used to "command and control" the so-called Waledac botnet. A botnet is a network of infected computers under the control of hackers.

The firm said that closing the domains would mean that up to 90,000 PCs would stop receiving orders to send out spam.

A recent study by the firm found that between 3-21 December "approximately 651 million spam e-mails attributable to Waledac were directed to Hotmail accounts alone".

It said it was one of the 10 largest botnets in the US.

Machines in a botnet have usually been infected by a computer virus or worm. Typically, users do not know their machine has been hijacked.

Microsoft said that although it had successfully shut down the network, thousands of computers would still be infected with malware and advised people to run anti-virus software.

The court order was part of what was called "Operation b49". <\p>

Microsoft said it was the result of months of analysis and described it as a legal first.

"This action has quickly and effectively cut off traffic to Waledac at the .com or domain registry level, severing the connection between the command and control centres of the botnet and most of its thousands of zombie computers around the world."

Spam is the misuse of electronic messaging systems (including most broadcast media, digital delivery systems) to send unwanted bulk messages erratically. While the most commonly accepted form of spam is e-mail spam
The term is applied to similar abuses in other media

• Instant messaging spam
• Usenet newsgroup spam
• Web search engine spam
• spam in blogs
• wiki spam
• online classified ads spam
• mobile phone messaging spam
• Internet forum spam
• junk fax transmissions
• social networking spam
• and file sharing network spam.

After just two days, spammers hit Google's social network

• Avoid clicking on doubtful links in e-mail or instant messages as these may be links to spoofed, or fake, Web sites.
• Never fill out forms in messages that ask for personal or financial information or passwords. A reputable charitable organization is unlikely to ask for your personal details via e-mail. When in doubt, contact the organization in question via an self-governing, trusted mechanism, such as a verified telephone number, or a known Inter-net address that you type into a new browser window (do not click or cut and paste from a link in the message).

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A film telling the story of the Nigerian Spammers -Be careful. These 419 scammers could be physically dangerous as well as dangerous to your finances. Victims are roughly always requested to travel to Nigeria or to the border country to total a transaction. ...

I got a fake e-mail, e-mails carrying image files of a Smiling Gordon Brown are passing online, but if anyone opens them, it will lead to the collapse of his/her PC that'll be un-remediable.
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Internet HoneyGrid reveals 95% of User Generated Content is spam or malicious
websense Security Labs has published its bi-annual State of Internet Security report and, as usual, it makes for pretty interesting if somewhat scary reading.

•       13.7% of searches for trending news/buzz words (as defined by Yahoo  Buzz & Google Trends) led to Malicious.
•         The second half of 2009 revealed a 3.3% decline in the increase of malicious Web sites evaluate to the first half of the year. Websense Security Labs considers this is due to the increased focus on Web 2.0 properties with higher traffic and multiple pages.
•          However, similarities the second half of 2009 with the same period in 2008, Websense Security labs saw an standard of 225% growth in malicious Web sites.
•         71% of Web sites with malicious code are rightful sites that have been compromised.
•      95% of user-generated posts on Web sites are Unsolicited or malicious.
• ·         Consistent with last year’s, 51% of malware still connects to host Web sites registered in the United States.
• ·         China has second most popular malware hosting country with 17%, but during the last six months Spain skipped into the third place with 15.7% despite never having been in the top 5 countries before.
• ·         81% of emails during the second half of the year contained a malicious link.
• ·         Websense Security Labs recognized that 85.8% of all emails were spam.
• ·         Statistics for the semiannual of 2009 show spam emails broke down as 72% (HTML), 11.2% (image), 14.4% (plain text with URL) and 2.4% (plain text with no URL).
• ·         35% of malicious Web-based attacks included data-stealing code.
• ·         58% of all data-stealing attacks are considered over the Web.