[SGVLUG] Latest anti-virus for windows self-installs via a viral infection...

[Emerson, Tom]

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2006/10/new_windows_invader_i
nstalls_l.html

But don't get your hopes up that this is "a good thing" -- per the
author, what is really happening is the spammers are installing the
program on "their army of zombie computers" in order to clean off OTHER
spammer's infections...  (after all, if your zombie militant is bogged
down with infections from a dozen other competitors, how much "work"
will it be doing for you anyway?)

In the "it gets worse" ramblings, the anti-virus is being spread using
P2P technology, and there is talk/evidence of the use of encryption as
well.  One self-proclaimed "botnet hunter" declared that the day
"encrypted p2p traffic becomes the norm" in a network of zombied
machines is the day he gets out of the business...

Tom Emerson

P.s. there is also a nice article on IE7's security problems -- complete
with a rather comical "dialog" between the commenters on the article
[the "comedic" part played by none other than "Master Guru"]