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Most Email Was Spam In 2007

Spam comprised 95 percent of all email traffic in 2007 according to anti-spam company SpamStopsHere. Spammers experimented with attaching encoded messages in a variety of file formats including MP3, Zip, Excel, Word and PDF. MP3 spam proved to be short lived. Spammers attached MP3 files named after popular songs and artists. When a recipient opened the attachment an electronic voice delivered a message promoting a stock for a particular company.

Storm Worm Spreads In YouTube Spam

One of the most prolific worms in recent memory has been seen in connection with spam that purports to be from a friend who wants you to see a YouTube video.

MySpace Phishes For The Worm

MySpace hooks the phising sites by removing the worm from user profiles.

Flash Worm Leads to No MySpace Widget Love

TechCrunch is reporting that third-party MySpace widgets such as those by the ever popular YouTube are no longer allowed to have link throughs.

Ho Ho No! Santa Worm On IM

Users of instant messaging systems MSN, AIM, ICQ, and Yahoo could get smacked with a worm that entices people to click on a link to Santa Claus.

Sober Worm Algorithms Finnished

The scheme used by the virus writer behind the Sober worms to determine where it will connect on the Internet has been cracked by the Finnish security firm.

Worm Sobers Up FBI, CIA

The ever-popular Sober worm is making the rounds again in a new and exciting format. The ugly little worm is circulating through email and it looks all nice and official because someone is receiving email from either the FBI or the CIA. Many may ask what they've done wrong to warrant attention from the FBI or CIA. Nothing much really you just happen to have an email account.

AIM Worm Installs Rootkit

FaceTime Security Labs reported that a variant of the Sdbot worm has been making the rounds on AIM via chats and instant messaging.

The Web 2.0 MySpace Friend-Generating Worm

Philipp writes about the worm that caused Samy to be a hero, and helped him gather a million friends.

Worm Spoofs Google, Yahoo, and MSN Search

Another worm that modifies the hosts file redirects queries sent to Google, MSN, or Yahoo to spoofed versions of those pages.