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Short URL Spam a Big Threat in August

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Spammers are taking particular advantage of the heightened interest in health-related issues like swine flu and healthcare reform to distribute large shortened-URL spam runs using the Donbot botnet, according to Symantec's
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(pdf). It talks about how one in 296.6 emails contained malware, but there have actually been decreases in spam, phishing, and blocked malware sites.

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