UAB computer forensics links internet postcards to virus

Friday, July 24, 2009 - 17:49 in Mathematics & Economics

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Fake Internet postcards circulating through e-mail inboxes worldwide are carrying links to the virus known as Zeus Bot, said Gary Warner, director of computer forensics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Zeus Bot has been named America's most pervasive computer Botnet virus by Network World magazine, reportedly infecting 3.6 million U.S. computers.

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