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From The Daily News:
Internet spammers launched a widespread attack on e-mail inboxes this month. But instead of trying to lure users into opening a corrupted attachment, they’re concealing a computer virus in a link to an online greeting card.
This is news, because?! How old is this trick? Yes, it is true that mail administrators have seen a rise in the number of falsified online greeting card SPAM with attachments lately, but this is an old trick. I have been an admin and over a corporate network for almost 9 years now and have seen many similar attempts to exploit end users in the same manner. Now, because it happens repeatedly in a short period of time, these spammers are doing something new?!
No, way… This is old school. Just thought I’d air that out there… A lot of news organizations are writing about this now and it just sort of struck me the wrong way.
I agree that we need to educate unsuspecting end users about the dangers of the Internet, but it just seems like the media is trying to stir up something that has been a known issue for years now. Sure, there are new people connecting to the Internet everyday who think if they have an e-mail in their inbox every time they check it it must be legit. But, come on. Report on some of the new stuff going on… Or, is there any?! Nobody knows!
Until next time…
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