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PC Magazine October 1, 2003 Brett Glass	Don't Let Your PC Become a Porn Zombie Protect your computer from takeover. We tell you how.
InternetNews February 12, 2004 Ryan Naraine	MyDoom Ends but Open Ports Attracting Mutants Microsoft releases a virus removal tool, but unpatched drone machines are still a major threat.
PC World July 23, 2007 Lincoln Spector	Proper ID for a Zombie PC If you can't tell by its ravenous appetite, glassy-eyed stare, and leprous casing, how do you know whether your system has become one of the living dead?
InternetNews July 4, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	Image-based Spam on the Rise Among the lead culprits in the spam overflow is a new take on an old technique called image-based spam.
InternetNews February 4, 2005 Jim Wagner	Spamhaus Accuses MCI of Hosting Spam Gangs Spamhaus Project blasts ISP over hosting policy. MCI counters that it's not in the business of censoring Internet content.
PC World June 2006 Andrew Brandt	New Devices Promise Protection in a Box These security gateways claim to stop threats before they reach your network. Netgear WGT624SC Super G Wireless Router... the Spam Cube... TrustEli Eli Security Appliance...
T.H.E. Journal September 2005	Blue Security Builds `Do Not Intrude Registry Patterned after the Federal Do Not Call Registry, Blue Security has created a free Do Not Intrude Registry, which forms a community of people to fight spam by registering via the Web and downloading its "Blue Frog" to their computers.
InternetNews January 11, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Image-Based Spam a Server Threat With spam now embedded in graphics files, e-mail servers are getting creamed.
InternetNews January 15, 2009 Richard Adhikari	The Web's Latest Threat: Smarter 'Zombies' Hacker-controlled PCs are outwitting security software - and are growing in number.
InternetNews May 24, 2005 Roy Mark	FTC Targets Zombie Spammers The Federal Trade Commission launched a new anti-spam campaign today targeting hijacked, or zombie, computers.
Reason November 2003 Wendy M. Grossman	The Spam Wars How should the Internet deal with junk mail?
InternetNews April 21, 2005 Jim Wagner	Attack of The Chinese Zombies! More than 20 percent of new, hacker-controlled computers come from China, an unfortunate side effect to its rapid Internet growth.
InternetNews December 29, 2004 Tim Gray	Viruses Crowd Internet in 2004 A banner year for virus writers meant a bad year for Internet users, but much of the damage was preventable.
InternetNews June 7, 2004 Robyn Greenspan	The Deadly Duo: Spam and Viruses, May 2004 The spam volume remains unchanged over the month, but Internet users don't have reason to celebrate, as the plateau is not indicative of an imminent decline in unwanted messages.
InternetNews February 24, 2004 Sharon Gaudin	Viruses Blamed for Expected 80% Spam Saturation by Q3 Spam is expected to make up 80 percent of all email by the third-quarter of this year. And analysts blame it largely on the open proxies created by viruses, like Sobig and MyDoom.
InternetNews May 5, 2004 Sharon Gaudin	Record Broken: 82% of U.S. Email is Spam Outdoing most analysts' worst predictions, spam accounted for 82 percent of all U.S. email last month.
InternetNews April 8, 2005 Tim Gray	Gates Wants to Can Spam -- Fast Microsoft founder and chief software architect continues to push for eradication of spam.
InternetNews January 14, 2004 Sharon Gaudin	Last Year's Security Problems May Balloon in 2004 If 2003 was the worst year in history for viruses and spam, hold onto your hat. This year, according to security experts, is setting up to see the malicious problems that appeared last year grow and fester into major security problems for 2004.
InternetNews June 25, 2004 Ryan Naraine	Malware Hacker Attack Linked to Spammers Experts warn that a highly sophisticated malicious hacker attack could turn millions of PCs into spam zombies. Infected IIS web servers are spreading the malicious software to Internet Explorer users.
PC Magazine December 12, 2007 Neil J. Rubenking	Security Suites 2008 Threats lined up against your PC have never been worse. But don't panic; there also has never been a better selection of security suites available to keep your system safe.
Knowledge@Wharton September 10, 2003	System Alert: You've Got... Worms Was the recent spate of attacks just more of the same -- or are virus writers beginning to infect computers with other gains in mind? Experts at Wharton and elsewhere weigh in on possible motives and defenses against them.
PC Magazine October 5, 2004 Sheryl Canter	You Need a (Properly Configured) Firewall Firewalls protect you in ways that antivirus software cannot, but only if they're set up correctly.
InternetNews December 12, 2008 Richard Adhikari	Web 2.0 and Cloud Tech: A Spammers' Paradise? With the proliferation of the cloud, spammers will find it becoming ever easier to ply their trade.
InternetNews December 23, 2004 Jim Wagner	Cyber Criminals Prove Elusive Law enforcement efforts to snare virus writers are improving, but the most destructive ones have evaded capture.
InternetNews June 29, 2009 Alex Goldman	Botnet Blight: Hacked PCs Create 83.2% of Spam A MessageLabs report finds spammers are hard at work with increasingly sophisticated, attack-resistant botnets.
InternetNews June 4, 2004 Ryan Naraine	Look Out For 3-Headed Plexus Worm A patch Microsoft issued in April could fend off the malicious mutant.
InternetNews July 1, 2009 David Needle	Google Spouts Scary Spam Stats Google digs deep to uncover the latest spam trends.
PC Magazine July 13, 2004 Alexandra Robbins	The Virus Wars As the problem continues to escalate, the future direction of the virus wars is something of an unknown, because it depends on so many variables, including the shifting motivations for virus writing.
PC World July 2004 Andrew Brandt	Privacy Watch: Why Your Friends Believe You're Selling Viagra Spammers who forge your address on their junk messages can clog your inbox and harm your reputation.
InternetNews July 24, 2006 Tim Scannell	U.S. Atop 'Dirty Dozen' Spam List The U.S. again snatched the top prize as the world's leading spam throughway for the third year in a row.
PC Magazine July 21, 2008 David A. Karp	Sending E-Mail in a Spam-Hysterical World The classic spam stream of porn and Nigerian scams has evolved into a torrent of nonsensical missives laced with malware. Here's why this spells trouble for your outgoing messages.
InternetNews November 26, 2008 Stuart J. Johnston	Microsoft Named in Top 5 Spam-Friendly Hosts Non-profit that tracks global spam says the software giant's Live services let spammers run wild.
InternetNews April 27, 2006 David Miller	Bouncebacks: The Hidden Cost of Spam A nasty side effect of spam and e-mailed viruses is costing companies an estimated $5 billion per year in IT resources, according to security services company IronPort.
PC Magazine February 2, 2005 Gottesman & Karagiannis	A False Sense of Security Only 85 percent of the AOL/NCSA survey respondents were running antivirus software. Worse, while 71 percent of those people thought they were updating their protection at least weekly (including automatic updates), barely half of them actually were.
InternetNews January 18, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Did Christmas PCs Scare Spam? There was a 30 percent reduction in spam around the first week of January. The reason could be either a major botnet going offline or possibly new Christmas computers replacing older ones that were unknowingly infected.
Entrepreneur January 2004 Frank J. Ohlhorst	Hold the Fort Safeguard your networks and PCs from invasions by worms, viruses and other dangerous agents.
PC Magazine June 22, 2004 Robert P. Lipschutz	Business Security Our buying guide sorts out the technologies and explains the best ways to protect yourself.
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PC Magazine August 3, 2005	The Ten Biggest Problems in Computing and How We'll Solve Them Malicious computer attacks will go on, but you can be confident we'll get better at fighting them.