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Home 23 Oct 2007 How big is the Storm botnet? Email The Storm worm has gotten a lot of press this year, with a lot of the coverage tending toward the apocalyptic. There's no question that it's one of the most successful pieces of malware to date, but just how successful is it? See more ... posted at: 23:39 :: permanent link to this entry :: 1 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com./Email/storm.trackback 19 Oct 2007 Thank heavens for class action lawyers Email If you had an e-mail address any time in the past six years, you've probably gotten spam for something called VigRX for Men, with fairly specific promises that it will make you, ah, manlier. I always wondered how many nitwits could fall for this kind of nonsense. Thanks to a recent class action settlement, we now know that there have been quite a lot of them. A class action suit filed in 2001 in Colorado settled recently, with some quite amazing info in the documents available at http://lemsettlement.com. LEM stands for Leading Edge Marketing, the name used by the defendants for several companies in the US, Canada, and the Bahamas. See more ... posted at: 22:41 :: permanent link to this entry :: 2 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com./Email/lemstuff.trackback

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