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...the PDFs are straight spam replacing the 'images' popular in all the stock tip mail from q1, while the greeting cards are leading you to a site that will attempt to install a bot on your computer. You should be safe as long as you keep your updates current. Both are very hard to filter for (which explains why they are so popular with spammers now) ...

Report on email threats: massive botnets spread PDF and malware
Posted on 18 July 2007.

Commtouch released its Email Threats Trend Report for the second quarter of 2007, based on the company’s real-time analysis of billions of email messages globally each week. Highlights include:

• Spam with PDF attachments was initiated at the end of the second quarter. During one massive attack, PDF-spam comprised 10-15% of global spam messages during a 24-hour period, increasing overall global spam traffic by 30-40%
• Spam and viruses have joined forces, using the same botnets to distribute both types of email-borne threats, sometimes even in the same email message
• Global spam levels remained high; 85-90% of all global email is spam
• Over 60% of spam-sending bots also send malware
• Over 300,000 zombies become newly activated each day
• Image spam in Q2 dropped to less than 15% of all spam, compared to 30% in the first quarter of 2007

Spammers unveiled a new email tactic toward the end of the quarter: PDF spam. This type of spam aims to evade anti-spam filters by disguising itself in a common format: attachments of the familiar Portable Document Format files. This trick helps the junk message pass many anti-spam solutions since it looks like a legitimate email.

More details, including samples of PDF spam and spam messages containing malware, are available in the Commtouch Q2 2007 Email Threats Trends Report

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i609 CMS Websites - Easy as 1-2-3

Your company is growing and you want an interactive, dynamic website but don't know where to start. If you hire a firm to do it, what happens when you want to edit it a couple months down the road? Or what if you want to update the contents every day or week? The answer is a site you own and a CMS System to maintain it. You may have heard the phrase thrown around in the media, but how does it relate to your business? Simply put, a content management system (CMS) is a system used to manage the content of a web site, without the necessity of an in depth knowledge of HTML and web programming languages.

If you've read anything at all about Content Management Systems (CMS), you'll probably know at least three things: CMS are the most exciting way to do business, CMS can be really, I mean really, complicated and lastly Portals are absolutely, outrageously, often unaffordably expensive.

Supporting the New Reality of the Remote Workforce

...with Remote PC Control

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Published on: July 2006
Type of content: VENDOR WHITE PAPER
Format: Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) (230 kb)
Length: 11 pages
Price: FREE

Overview:
The growth of the mobile and remote workforce has made responsibility for remote support complex and strained for IT professionals. According to an October 2005 analysis done by IDC, the number of remote and mobile workers reached 650 million worldwide in 2004. IDC predicts that, over the next five years, that number will reach 850 million - more than one quarter of the global workforce. The remote workforce, while once a trend, is now the reality support professionals must face.

In an effort to reduce costs, increase efficiency and serve the growing pool of remote end-users, more and more companies are adding web-based and self-service technologies such as FAQs, knowledge bases and download centers to their remote support options. Over 65% also offer email auto- response/suggest, and nearly 59% offer knowledge bases.

Phone support has become less popular with end-users; outsourcing support has its own complexities, risks and costs; and while implementations of online self-help and email support have increased, self-help methods are not end-users' support options of choice. And although in-person support gives support professionals direct access to the problem and allows them to troubleshoot deeply without the convoluted process of deciphering an end-user's description of his issue, this support method is expensive, time consuming and impractical in the new mobile marketplace. Traditional models of remote support are losing ground.

One remote support method, however, is gaining in popularity. According to PC Magazine's 18th Annual Reader Satisfaction Survey, remote PC control has a satisfaction rate higher than any other support contact type for mobile workers using laptops and is running a close second to in-person support for remote workers using desktops.

This growing preference for remote control is indicative of the effectiveness of this support method. Like in-person support, remote PC control gives a support professional direct access to the user's problem. On the other hand, the expense of in-person support, the complexity of phone support and the tedium of knowledge-bases and email support methods are eliminated with remote PC control.

There is no question that remote PC control is the future of support and will soon be expected by end-users. But is it right for your company, and, if so, which product best suits your technical and financial requirements? As these issues move to the top of the CEO/CFO agenda, being able to make the business case has been added to the job qualifications of IT professionals and support managers.

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