One of the largest bot networks today is Srizbi which will turn your computer into a zombie that wil flood Internet with spam. According to Marshal Trace the network has increased it’s spamming from about 3% of all spam to 9.9%.

The thing with this network is that it’s tricking it’s victims to install the bad software by requesting a special plugin to view a video for example. Another example is an email looking like someone want you to check out a page at Classmates.com, but when you visit that page you’re requested to install a special browser plugin to view the entire message. Therefore you should stay alert for anything that require other plugins then the plugins from known developers like Sun and Adobe.

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First is Symantec reporting about a vulnerability in Adobes Flash that may be causing over 200,000 sites to be in danger, then a few days later Symantec is reporting that they may have made a mistake.

An old version of Flash (version 9.0.115.0) contained the bug causing problems for players with that version, but the problem was fixed on April 8th by Adobe. When Symantec first reported about the problem they hadn’t tested using the latest version of Flash (version 9.0.124.0). If you have the latest version of Flash you don’t have to worry at all, but if you got Windows XP and an older version of Flash you may want to visit www.adobe.com and upgrade to the latest version as soon as possible.

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