Spamming malware: Parite.B and IRC backdoor disable anti-spyware programs

I got a spam this morning with a subject line of “yahoo send you postcard” from “postcard”. Of course all the alarms went off in my head, but there was no attachment and I have a nice little freeware app called PocketKnife Peek that lets you preview an email in plain text, view the html source, the headers and attachments without opening the email. (Minor rant — why doesn’t Outlook 2003 have that feature?!)

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April 25, 2006 at 9:01 pm · Filed under ,

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