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By John Leyden
Published Tuesday 12th February 2008 08:57 GMT

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Less dangerous, but still annoying... 

By Jon Press
Posted Tuesday 12th February 2008 10:49 GMT

... is the increasing amount of spam that seems to be coming from self-appointed "affiliates" of UK operations that would have to abide by DPA requirements if they were e-mailing on their own behalf.

Time for companies to take responsibility for the actions of their paid agents.

DNS changer? 

By Anonymous Coward
Posted Monday 18th February 2008 14:55 GMT
Stop

So correct my if Im wrong but what stops them from redirecting trafic to a malicious site with mpack installed?

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