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The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today halted trading on shares of 35 companies believed to be involved in recent pump-and-dump spam campaigns. Three managed security services available from 1 April. Microsoft's messaging client for several days has displayed banner ads that attempted to install malware on user's systems. The amount of spam in email traffic rose during the second quarter of this year, as spammers converged platforms such as email, instant messaging (IM) and social networking sites to spread unwanted email, according to a recent study. A worm posing as a New Year's greeting has been ranked as last month's most widespread virus, despite not appearing until 30 December. Email users are again getting the electronic age's version of coal in a stocking - holiday-season spam and malware. The use of rootkits to conceal both malware and commercially viable Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs) is on the rise, new research warned today. Researchers at McAfee Avert Labs predicted this week that the top security threats in 2007 will revolve around increased production of malware by organised criminals for monetary gain. Security researchers have discovered proof-of-concept (PoC) code for an adware program that targets Apple's OS X operating system. Microsoft security partner Sophos has released a Windows Vista compatible anti-virus package timed for Vista’s November 30 business-market release. Trend Micro's IM Security suite is designed to sit on top of a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 machine already running Microsoft Live Communications Server 2005. From the offset we got the feeling that this suite was going to be bolted down pretty tight. For starters, to activate the product you need to log into Trend Micro's website and use your registration key to get an activation code. Tuesday's election had one negative impact on citizens before the first ballot was even cast - a deluge of political spam messages flowing into users' inboxes. Spammers came out in force last month generating a deluge of unsolicited email that "severely threatened corporate networks", a monitoring report claimed today. Zombie activity and spam levels jumped last month as criminals began to target users in the weeks before Christmas, a new report revealed today. October saw a sharp increase in zombie activity and spam levels as criminals target users in the weeks before Christmas, a new report revealed today. Company data saved on primary storage continues to grow leaving companies vulnerable to security risks, according to research published yesterday. What is it? What is it? What is it? Researchers are warning peer-to-peer (p2p) application users of a new proof-of-concept virus that acts similarly to the W97M/Melissa malware.