A lot of swf files...

Follow-up from my blog post yesterday on SWF files being used in spam: One researcher has shared with me a little over 800 SWF files on ImageShack, all pushing malware.  I did a quick spot check and many of these are still live. I have been told that ImageShack has been notified.   I hope they get this stuff down fast.

I did get a reader who was a bit confused about this, so just to make it clear: These SWF files include a simple redirect that pops-up a dialog to install a piece of malware from a different location.  You actually have to click “Run” to execute the malware.