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PC stripper helps spam to spread

 
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 9:16 am    Post subject: PC stripper helps spam to spread
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From the BBC News website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7067962.stm

A virtual stripper is helping to defeat anti-spam security checks.

Spammers have created a Windows game which shows a woman in a state of undress when people correctly type in text shown in an accompanying image.

The scrambled text images come from sites which use them to stop computers automatically signing up for accounts that can be put to illegal use.

By getting people to type in the text the spammers can take over the accounts and use them to send junk mail.



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 4:31 pm    Post subject:
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Ingenious.
someone better tell The Internet Archive
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 8:18 am    Post subject:
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This is more than just a "game": http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_143504.htm - it's a trojan spreading it.
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