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Archive for the 'Worms/Viruses' Category

Don’t fall for dead Osama e-mail scam

Friday, June 16th, 2006

Consider this a forewarning word to the wise:
There’s a phony e-mail scam going around (again) that says: “Osama Bin Ladin was found hanged by two CNN journalists early Monday evening. As evidence they took several photos, some of which we have included here. As yet, this information has not hit the headlines due to Bush […]

Watch out for Santa Claus IM Worm

Saturday, December 24th, 2005

Here’s one we better pass around today: Link: PCWorld.com - Here Comes Santa Claus Worm.
A new instant-messaging worm called IM.GiftCom.All is making the rounds this holiday season. Rated as a "medium" threat by IMlogic, the worm attempts to get users of the instant-messaging networks run by America Online, Yahoo, and Microsoft to visit a seemingly […]

Aother worm warning

Saturday, November 26th, 2005

A variant of W32/Sober.gen@MM, W32/Sober@MM!M681 is another mass-mailing worm hiding inside a spam email attachment making its way around the net this weekend. When run, the virus displays a fake error message, infects the host computer then sends itself to stolen email addresses.
Here’s some info from the folks at McAfee:
What should I look for? FROM: […]

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