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Spammers are now using Amazon’s Clod service EC2 (Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud). Over last couple of days Sophos has detected a good amount of spam messages, telling users that your computer require a critical Microsoft Windows Update. This is oldest and best trick used by spammers to spread spam messages. There is no clear indication why spammers using Amazon EC2 to spread the spam messages but may be Amazon EC2 is well know and trustworthy site, users will be fooled into getting infected.

In order to stay protected, you should disregard any message with the following subject lines:

• Critical Microsoft Update
• Critical Update Notification
• Important Microsoft Update
• Important Update Notification
• Important Windows Update.

Basically, anything stating that you need some sort of critical update.

Spam message Screenshot taken from Sophos website

Alert message of Sophos Anti-virus

The emails arrived via an IP that is part of a botnet:

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Cloud computing is the biggest technology shift in the market today, currently there is no service that show the status of clouds. Hyperic, a San Francisco based company has launched a new service, called “CloudStatus” that will help users to get the health and performance of most popular cloud services on the web. CloudStatus is independent service provides businesses utilizing the cloud critical perspectives needed to determine the cause of performance changes in their cloud-based web applications.

CloudStatus is a free service that provides real-time visibility into the infrastructure metrics that affect applications such as service availability, latency and throughput. Users can drill down for detailed, service-specific metrics on any of the monitored offerings.

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Over the 1.9 millions votes and from the 300 finalists webware releases the list of Top 100 web applications for the year 2008. These 300 finalists are selected (by Webware editors) from a pool of over 5000 qualifying nominees. Top 100 web applications are selected by the voting of more then 1.9 Millions votes. Webware selected the top 100 web applications in 10 categories including Audio(Amazon MP3), Browsing and Tools (Firefox), Commerce and events(Amazon.com),Communication(AOL Instant Messenger),Productivity (30 Boxes), Publishing and Photography (Apple’s .Mac service), Search and Reference (Answers.com),Social(Bebo),Utility and Security (Amazon Simple Storage Service) and video(Amazon Unbox).

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Amazon.com recently launches it’s Mp3 download service. From there you can download mp3 songs for all type of music players. mp3 songs are encoded in 256 kbps this means you get better sound quality at reasonable file size.

• Amazon is adding mp3 songs daily and there are around 2 million songs from independent and major label artists.
• Amazon will sell these mp3 songs with absolutely no rights management software, you’re free to listen to your music on any device you’d like.
• Amazon MP3 offers high-quality DRM-free downloads at low prices. Find full albums as low as $4.99 and tracks as low as 89 cents

Amazon Mp3 Download

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