1. Urban Legends Reference Pages: Mail Server Report •••• Information about the Mail Server Report mass-mailing worm. ...Hoaxes & Realities --> Mail Server Report Mail Server Report Virus: Mail Server Report. Example: [Collected via e-mail, 2006] Matson IT... ...have identified a new computer virus that arrives in an e-mail with the subject line "Mail Server Report". Outage Duration. None. Email services and... ...We have put filters in place to block future messages and have swept the e-mail system removing all messages that match the above description. Contact....%
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(Thanks Jacki)
Jan 13, 2007
This is Real - I checked!
Jan 7, 2007
Attack of the Zombie Computers Is Growing Threat
Rick Wesson, left, is chief executive of the data-gathering company Support Intelligence; Adam Waters is chief operating officer. “We are losing this war badly,” Mr. Wesson said of the growing threat from botnets
By JOHN MARKOFF
Published: January 7, 2007
In their persistent quest to breach the Internet’s defenses, the bad guys are honing their weapons and increasing their firepower.
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With growing sophistication, they are taking advantage of programs that secretly install themselves on thousands or even millions of personal computers, band these computers together into an unwitting army of zombies, and use the collective power of the dragooned network to commit Internet crimes.
These systems, called botnets, are being blamed for the huge spike in spam that bedeviled the Internet in recent months, as well as fraud and data theft.






