E-Mail Greeting Cards May Be Hiding Virus
Posted on: Saturday, 21 July 2007, 18:14 CDT
That might not be an online greeting card from a secret admirer in your e-mail in-box, but rather the latest attempt by spammers to victimize Web surfers.
The Washington Post said Saturday that Internet spammers were at it again in a big way by concealing a computer virus in a link to an online greeting card.
Postini, an e-mail security company, told the Post that since July 2, it has seen about 275 million of these spam messages.
Symantec, an antivirus company, issued a warning.
It is just the latest trick for attackers to get users to install malicious software on their machines, Zulfikar Ramzan, principal researcher for Symantec,told the Post: I think attackers have come to realize simple is good."
One online greeting-card firm, American Greetings, posted a warning on its Web site reminding customers they can pick up their legitimate cards by going directly to the company's site.
Source: United Press International
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