| Spammers adopt new tactics
Spammers have one goal: to get your attention. Whether they're promoting hot stock tips, cures for impotency, miracle hair-growth methods, or other scams, the motive is usually to separate you from your money. But they can't do that if you're not reading their unsolicited email. As anti-spam software has gotten smarter over the past year, many computer users have been seeing less spam rather than more. But spammers are now employing new tactics that are escaping the net that their anti-spam software casts. Don't be fooled. Be on the lookout for spam that falls into one of the following categories. PDF Spam .
Pearl Software Expands Web Filtering to Catch Bot Nets
Anti-virus control: An added benefit in Web Monitoring and Filtering software. Pearl Software, Inc., announced an expanded approach to fighting Bot Nets with the latest release of Pearl Echo, its leading Employee Internet Monitoring and Web Filtering software. Exton, PA (PRWEB) July 24, 2007 -- Pearl Software, Inc., announced an expanded approach to fighting Bot Nets with the latest release of Pearl Echo, its leading Employee Internet Monitoring and Web Filtering software. A Bot Net is a group of Internet-enabled computers that have been surreptitiously configured to forward spam and virus to other computers on the Internet. As described by Joe Field, CTO of Pearl Software, a Web filtering software provider, "A Bot Net operator sends out viruses or worms, infecting computers with a trojan application.
PDF spam wave subsides, says BitDefender
Spammers are losing the fight as IT users become wise to unsolicited files, security software house BitDefender has said. BitDefender's researchers said the number of spam messages with PDF attachments dropped recently. This is because recipients are not clicking on uninvited PDFs, said Vlad Valceanu, head of BitDefender's anti-spam lab. BitDefender rival MessageLabs said two weeks ago that hackers had tweaked the Storm worm to produce the infected PDF files. These took the form of fake job advertisements, greetings cards, and stock tips to support penny-stock "pump-and-dump" schemes. .
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