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Conficker Virus Update

We blogged about the Conficker Virus back in October of 2008 and then again in March of 2009. It was feared that Conficker was programmed to become active on April 1st, potentially causing problems across millions of PC's. While this date passed with no noticeable impact, many sites across the web are reporting that Conficker is still a threat and in many cases causing problems. Yahoo reports that Conficker is being used to install additional software, hijacking PC's to send out SPAM email....

April Fool’s Day poses Virus risk

Virus programmers have written a new virus that is scheduled to become active on April 1st, 2009. It is estimated that 9 to 15 million machines are currently infected. On April 1st, these machines will execute the malicious code, potentially causing havoc across homes and businesses. We wrote about this vulnerability back in October of 2008. We rolled out proactive patches to all clients at that time. Viruses tend to mutate quickly. Even with current virus protection, it's advisable to...

What SPAM looks like

Network Velocity provides Postini Email Protection Services to our clients. On a typical day we'll process over 32,000 emails. Of those 32,000 emails only 5,000 will be delivered. That's a delivery ratio of 15%. We describe SPAM as a cat and mouse game. Postini has built the best mousetrap available, but the mice (SPAMMERS) are always fighting back. To share what we see from our console we've included a few screenshots of the email traffic we process. This sample was taken in the eve...