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Bot nets are the Holy Grail of spammers, phishing gangs and other malicious individuals and criminal organizations. These are global networks of “slave” computers — whose owners have no idea that their machines are being used to send millions of spam, phishing, adware, spyware and malware messages every day. They may wonder why their computers run slowly, and that available processing resources seem to be strangely low.

How on earth do people’s computers end up being hooked into these worldwide bot networks?

Easy.

They open spam messages with attachments with no idea what they contain.

They download free games, music, videos, screensavers, etc, etc, etc with adware, spyware and other malware (including keyloggers, trojans, viruses and worms) attached or embedded. (Keyloggers record your keystrokes when entering usernames and passwords for everything from your Facebook account to your bank account, then send them to the vermin who sent them to you.)

A current crop is the “Please view my resume (or CV)” scam. Take a look at these messages we’ve received over recent weeks. They all claim to be from different people, but the messages are all the same (including misspelling “quite interested”), they contain attachments all around the same size and you open them at your peril.

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