Beware the Emails of Halloween

**vectro** · Oct 31st, 2009, 8:41 pm

Beware the Emails of Halloween | WebProNews

From the article: "Symantec's MessageLabs released its Intelligence Report for the month of October, and it reveals the that the spammers behind the biggest botnets – Cutwail, Rustock and Donbot – are using the upcoming major holidays and world events as the themes for their the latest spam runs. This is not particularly surprising news, but it is news that people should be aware of nevertheless.

According to MessageLabs, only 0.5% of spam right now is tied to Halloween, but about 500 million Halloween-themed spam emails are expected to be in circulation worldwide each day as the holiday approaches this week. The majority of Halloween spam links to pharmaceutical spam sites and comes from the Rustock and Donbot botnets, the firm says."

**weblover50** · Nov 1st, 2009, 2:53 am

I didn get any such mail.. Did anyone got it??

**designs** · Nov 2nd, 2009, 1:38 am

I don't receive that kind of mail either. I guess that is only a gossip.

**vectro** · Nov 2nd, 2009, 12:41 pm

I haven't received any either. I don't think it's gossip, though. Like they said, less than 1% of spam for that time was Halloween related. The article is more about the big spam networks.