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Storm Botnet Spreading Malware Through GeoCities

PC World brings us reports that the Storm Botnet is now using Geocities, of all things, as an attack vector. Seems like it would have made sense in, say, 1997, but in 2007? People still use Geocities? I avoid any links to Geocities not because of malware, but because I remember how god-awful the web was when Geocities was cool. Now you have to be doubly wary.

Yesterday, Trend watched as existing bots controlled by Storm were seeded with new spam templates that included links to sites on GeoCities, the free Web hosting service owned by Yahoo Inc. Today, Storm kicked off the new attacks. "This has developed into a full-fledged attack vector," Ferguson said.