14 June 2007 12:06 GMT
Everything but the kitchen sink
The phrase “Everything but the kitchen sink” describes the following spam very well.
------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo NEWS !!! Britney Spears married Bill Gates !!! http://xxxxxx.xxx/741962/exp/index.php -------------------------------------------------------------------------- OEM Soft Store 80% Discounts -------------------------------------------------------------------------- MS Windows Vista Business Edition at ......ONLY $49.95 snip And many more… ————————————————————————– Come and check out by yourself http://www.xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxx.xx/ check it http://xxxxxx.xx/ ———————————————————————
As well as the Britney Spears news (a popular target for malware authors 1, 2, 3 …) and the cheap software spam. SophosLabs have seen spam from this campaign spamvertising replica watches, viagra, weightloss and dubious job offers.
In this particular case clicking on the news story would run JS/Dload-E which would in turn download and run Troj/Dwnldr-GVM.
Pob, SophosLabs, UK
