Did you get spam today? It was probably Windows powered.

Published August 20th, 2003

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Where you heavily spammed by the new Windows viruses today? Well, you aren’t alone. Milllions of mails with the same 9 subjects have been sent out through Sobig.F infected computers, that now have become virtual spam relay hosts.

And if that wasn’t enough, mal-configured anti virus software send out notifications that our email addresses have been used as from-addresses for these worm infected mails.

The subject lines for Sobig.F could be: Re: Thank you!, Thank you!, Your details, Re: Details, Re: Re: My details, Re: Approved, Re: Your application, Re: Wicked screensaver, Re: That movie

Collage: Andreas Lindkvist www.lindkvist.com - A can of spam, powered by Microsoft

My domain name neighbour, graphic designer and painter Andreas Lindkvist (of www.linkvist.com) sent me this desktop picture. Spam - Powered by Microsoft Windows. Originally from Andreas Lindkvist.

3 Responses to “Did you get spam today? It was probably Windows powered.”

  1. The famous tradmark SPAM Says:

    […] if Merchant & Gould had had objections to the collage by Andreas Lindqvist, portraying a can of Windows powered spam that I have re-published elsewhere on this site, or if they had objections to the fact that this […]

  2. Spam, spam, spam Says:

    […] Here’s a nice little music video about the other kind of spam, the kind of spam that isn’t powered by Microsoft. […]

  3. help seeker Says:

    make an easy contoct system with you if any scam is happend with someone
    and make some system to grab such thiefs who are playing not only with the money but also with the sentiments and emotions of the innocents and stealing life [time] of struggelers innocents!
    which no one could get back once lost.
    and try to stop the system of lottery only,because even if its true then also its somehow misguiding the society to do hard work and struggle
    especlally youths who always seeks some shortcut for quick-success.
    hope you will take it serious

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