Newsfront

May, 2012

Viagra VillainsA team of computer scientists at the University of California investigated the origins of those ubiquitous e-mails that promise $3 Viagra without a prescrip­tion. The researchers, who specialize in "spamalytics," traced 365 million links found in spam e-mails to 69,000 sites operated by 45 companies, most of them in Russia. They also made 56 ran­dom purchases. Although 91 percent of the orders were filled, it was impossible to tell what was in the pills, nearly all of wh...