Charming spam
12 May 2003WINDOWS SECURITY WARNING!! A VIRUS HAS BEEN DETECTED ON YOUR COMPUTER. IN ORDER FOR YOUR COMPUTER NOT TO CRASH YOU WILL NEED TO GO TO: HTTP://WWW.WINDOWSUPDATENOW.COM AND IT WILL AUTOMATICALLY UPDATE YOUR COMPUTERS SECURITY PATCHES. SIMPLY TYPE IN WWW.WINDOWSUPDATENOW.COM INTO YOUR BROWSER. OTHERWISE YOU WILL KEEP RECEIVING THIS SECURITY ALERT EMAIL EVERY DAY.
So how many people do you think went to the site before someone did this:
myers@numbers:~$ dig www.windowsupdatenow.com [...] ;; ANSWER SECTION: www.windowsupdatenow.com. 236503 IN A 0.0.0.0