Anatomy of a Malware Scam

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Jesper M. Johansson has a very interesting 8-page article up on The Register entitled Anatomy of a Malware Scam that’s well worth a read. It does start a little techy, but I urge any Windows user to have a browse through it just to see how “clever” the thieving ***** who write this software really are.

It’s quite an eye-opener and I’ve seen a couple of other examples of this “in the wild”, particularly since I returned to Asia where anti-virus/anti-spyware software on public PCs is a thing of legend.

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