Want free tickets to the World Cup? Simply click the email link. Eager soccer fans have sucked up 5% the SMTP traffic on the web. It’ll cost you all the passwords hidden on your hard disk. Your… tickets… will be delivered courtesy of Sober-P, Sober.N, Sober.O or Sober.S (the virus). Pull up a chair and learn.
Prefer some juicy gossip about Tony Blair? Click the message link and you’ll hand all your server passwords over to PWSAgent-A.
For something a bit different, try BankAsh-A. It presents you with fake banking sites so it can steal your accounts. BankAsh works its magic via peer-to-peer networks, adware and spyware.
Some disable Windows anti-spyware, while others avoid or disable Windows anti-virus software. But they all serve as reminders to deploy multi-level security… Especially if you serve Windows clients.

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