(OT) Virus! If true be warned

[Guest guest]

If not true, no panic. But, for me, better an un-necessary warning

than be caught?

There is currently a stack of emails going round titled " You've

received a postcard from a Neighbour! " or similar, maybe Friend,

Relative etc.

The site that they appear to be from may look quite genuine, will say

that the postcard will be available for a certain number of days and

direct you to click a link to view it.

DON'T!

The link has nothing to do with the site it purports to be from and if

clicked it then tries very hard in a sneaky way to bypass your

defence systems to install a very aggressive bit of malware called

Storm, that will play absolute havoc with your PC.

The story checks out on Snopes -

http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/postcard.asp and the industry

techie site -

http://security.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/07/09/storm-malware-posing-as-fake-sec\

urity-warnings/

[Guest guest]

2 of my e-mail addresses are getting bombarded with these, and I

have not opened any of them, but I will say my virus software at

work picks up about 1 in every 5 or so postcard e-mails that have a

virus attached. So in my experience with these e-mails I would say

you are correct.

>

> If not true, no panic. But, for me, better an un-necessary warning

> than be caught?

>

> There is currently a stack of emails going round titled " You've

> received a postcard from a Neighbour! " or similar, maybe Friend,

> Relative etc.

>

> The site that they appear to be from may look quite genuine, will

say

> that the postcard will be available for a certain number of days

and

> direct you to click a link to view it.

>

>

> DON'T!

>

>

> The link has nothing to do with the site it purports to be from

and if

> clicked it then tries very hard in a sneaky way to bypass your

> defence systems to install a very aggressive bit of malware called

> Storm, that will play absolute havoc with your PC.

>

> The story checks out on Snopes -

> http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/postcard.asp and the industry

> techie site -

>

> http://security.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/07/09/storm-malware-

posing-as-fake-security-warnings/

>

[Guest guest]

2 of my e-mail addresses are getting bombarded with these, and I

have not opened any of them, but I will say my virus software at

work picks up about 1 in every 5 or so postcard e-mails that have a

virus attached. So in my experience with these e-mails I would say

you are correct.

>

> If not true, no panic. But, for me, better an un-necessary warning

> than be caught?

>

> There is currently a stack of emails going round titled " You've

> received a postcard from a Neighbour! " or similar, maybe Friend,

> Relative etc.

>

> The site that they appear to be from may look quite genuine, will

say

> that the postcard will be available for a certain number of days

and

> direct you to click a link to view it.

>

>

> DON'T!

>

>

> The link has nothing to do with the site it purports to be from

and if

> clicked it then tries very hard in a sneaky way to bypass your

> defence systems to install a very aggressive bit of malware called

> Storm, that will play absolute havoc with your PC.

>

> The story checks out on Snopes -

> http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/postcard.asp and the industry

> techie site -

>

> http://security.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/07/09/storm-malware-

posing-as-fake-security-warnings/

>