Viruses and spam — and the techniques used to create, disguise and distribute both — are converging into a single threat in which the two computer disruptions depend on one another in a sort of symbiotic manner, according to security experts. Security firm MessageLabs highlighted the convergence in its monthly intelligence report released this week, indicating that the new end goal of viruses such as Bugbear, SoBig and MyDoom is to use spamming techniques to spread for profit.
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Convergence Quagmire: Viruses with Spam
Posted by: Jay Lyman August 18, 2004 10:52 AMViruses and spam — and the techniques used to create, disguise and distribute both — are converging into a single threat in which the two computer disruptions depend on one another in a sort of symbiotic manner, according to security experts. Security firm MessageLabs highlighted the convergence in its monthly intelligence report released this week, indicating that the new end goal of viruses such as Bugbear, SoBig and MyDoom is to use spamming techniques to spread for profit.