Swine influenza reaches Internet

As the theme of the swine flu epidemic continues to gain importance worldwide, the spammers have not been left behind. The Symantec security experts have been monitoring the spam and continue to analyze various messages associated with the topic. 29.04.2009, 15:25

Mouse .- In the past, the campaigns of spam-related events sought to send malicious messages on the mail user should click on links or URLs that claimed to be harmful or lead to a supposed video. But this time, it appears that spammers are more interested in using the issue of influenza to collect email addresses - perhaps as part of a collection tool for future campaigns.

One of the samples simply tells readers of the disaster, using headers or headers recognized agencies. They were also asked users whether they are in Mexico or United States and whether or not to know someone affected by this disease. Subsequently, users can share their experience by completing a form (via a URL) or to "reply" to their history and including information such as your email address and telephone number.