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Taking the political temperature through the medium of penis-enlargement promises

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USA '08 Barack Obama is ahead not only in the polls but where it counts the most - in spam messages. However, his presidential rival John McCain can claim his own guaranteed enlarged small victory.

The Democrat candidate is the topic of 70 per cent more junk mail messages than his Republican counterpart overall. But McCain edges ahead by a ratio of five to four in one important category - pharmacy spam, according to stats from Secure Computing.

So based on the volume of penis-enlargement pill promises the senior senator from Arizona is well ahead of the Illinois whippersnapper.

Generally the news hooks used by spammers parallel those of VXers, but relatively little election-themed malware has emerged this election season. A campaign that punted malware in the guise of supposedly compromising images of Obama getting jiggy with a young Ukrainian strumpet was the one exception that proved the rule. The malware attempted to spread the Hupig-D Trojan, as explained in a blog posting by Sophos here. ®

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Latest Comments

Blame it on the chinese !!

I love elections.... in fact , i have one right now!

Mine's the grey mack.... oh wait, I left it on that russian's yacht!!

( that explains the sailor suit)

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Understandable Connection.

JM is the perfect candidate to endorse this product. He was a POW, after all. And that means he's perfect for everything.

Oh, hang on...

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not good

I guess the spammers really know their target market: the gullible, the foolish and those too arrogant to ask for help when they're in trouble. a.k.a. Republicans.

Mines the one with the plain paper ballots in the pocket, ta.

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