Ok everybody, for me 14 emails in two days complete with the gift that keeps on giving, (A Viral Infection) is 14 too many. And most of you don't even know you are sending those little surprises out.
Last week my Norton expired, so, taking Jordon's advice, I downloaded and installed the AVG Free edition. It hasn't missed a beat, catching them all.
It's not safe out there anymore, so get some protection on, and start practicing safe computing ok?
14 infected emails? Boy you DO live in a backwater ;-)
ReplyDeleteAnd as for people you know sending them to you - I've even had them with our 'info@DSLabs or Oxbio' address spoofed. I know they're not from here, because we're behind a decent hardware firewall with AV software updated and in place.
Just hit those shift/delete keys.
14 for that account was huge. It's a family account that we use fairly privately. We never even get spam on it.
ReplyDeleteTonight the count is up to 35. I've never seen that account get so much crap!
And, like you, I even got one from my "Management Team" today:
_____________________________________________
Dear user of e-mail server "Friesenworld.com",
Some of our clients complained about the spam (negative e-mail content)
outgoing from your e-mail account. Probably, you have been infected by
a proxy-relay trojan server. In order to keep your computer safe,
follow the instructions.
Pay attention on attached file.
Cheers,
The Friesenworld.com team
___________________________________
Good grief.
Good old social engineering.
ReplyDeleteChances are most of the infected emails aren't from the address in the From field. These days a lot of viruses propagate using "spoofed" From addresses. See article at
ReplyDeletehttp://www.uark.edu/campus/compserv/antivirus/spoof.html