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Old 10-08-2008, 00:46   #13580
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Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]

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Originally Posted by SelfProtection View Post
If recent events hadn't made me slightly paranoid I'd have ignored the possible link between the possible financial Plights of Nebuad & Phorm & this recent Spam Explosion.

http://www.computerworld.com/action/...c=news_ts_head
Oh, don't even suggest such things. The world is much more innocent than that.

However, the level of spam is such that I have not yet had the usual acknowledgment from netcraft for the spam emails I forwarded to them from my little honey traps. Each day I have received many of the CNN emails, and each one pointed to a different site - all around the world.
Just sent through 5 more copies on the CNN phishing mail and each one pointed to a site that is not on the phishing list.

So much for someone offering 'free phishing protection' - what a scam if compromised websites are not on the list. I have seen com1.ru in a few mails - looks like they belong to agava.com who sell anti-spam and firewalls.

It is just so easy to harvest the logon details of anyone using cPanel if you have access to the data stream. Where was I reading about the botnet software being sold that leaves a backdoor open to send all the click stream back to mama?

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Just a thought for the techies. If someone who is phormed gets harvested by a botnet. The DPI system is protected by only being open to a restricted range of IP addresses.
Now there is a botnet, with a backdoor, passing through the DPI system ....

I do hope that someone employs a security expert very soon.
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