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The potential pandemic
of Asian Bird Flu has brought about major panic in the EU.
Countries have been warned to stock up on anti-viral
drugs after confirmation that the bird flu virus found in
Turkey is the H5N1 strain dangerous to humans.
Internet users should be warned that spammers are
putting the lives of innocent people at risk, by peddling
drugs online that are said to combat bird flu.
There are an increasing number of junk
messages which claim to sell Tamiflu, the
anti-viral believed to be most
effective against bird flu. The drug is in high demand
following tests on dead birds in north-west Turkey confirmed
the H5N1 strain
The spam emails
advise recipients to protect themselves and their families
from the asian flu virus by purchasing Tamiflu from online
websites. The websites also supposedly sell other household
drugs available from local pharmacies. This is not the first
attempt of spammers trying to exploit users. Spammers prey on
the uninformed and vulnerable.
This problem can be combated using ArmourPlate. The ArmourPlate
Anti
Spam service works by scanning your company's email to
stop spam before it reaches your computer network. Your company's
email is filtered by our proprietary, highly sophisticated
spam recognition engine, 'Robot 5', which will detect almost
all spam and places it in an individual user's Spam Box, housed
on the ArmourPlate system. Each email user can view their
Spam Box via a Web browser.
By not having ArmourPlate your company is at very real risk.
Using the ArmourPlate service will safeguard your company
and save you money.
ArmourPlate is considerably more cost effective than tackling
the spam and virus problem internally at your company.
Having spam and virus emails stopped at source by us saves
you from investing in hardware, software and IT time, freeing
up resources to focus on other issues.
No more spam. No more viruses. Simple!
Source: Sophos
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