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January 8, 2006

EMAIL Hell - Happy New Year From Evil Scum Hackers

by Ferdinand T Cat

Chances are you have your virus definitions are up-to-date, your service provider has upgraded to the fancy new MailScanner application, and you've applied the Microsoft WMF vulnerability fix to your PC. If you've done all those things, you do not have to worry about the Happy New Year virus EMAIL.

However, you may have friends who are not owned by cats and therefore aren't being protected by a superior intelligence. In that case, they may need to know that a self-mailing virus is propagating itself across the Internet in the guise of a Happy New Year greeting card from 123greetings. 123greetings is a legitimate electronic greeting card distributor; however, the link in the Happy New Year virus EMAIL will actually direct you to a different location that will display a WMF file containing a trojan horse program.

What's unusual here is the fake link trick used by phishing emails is being used to deliver a greeting card virus. The people behind this thing have attempted to use as many sneaky tricks as they can in a single virus attack. It would be impressive if it weren't so disgustingly evil.

As always, be careful, make sure you apply your updates, and clip out all the Sargento's cheese discount coupons in your newspaper and mail them to me. (Well, okay, maybe that last one has nothing to do with EMAIL viruses, but it's still a good idea.)

Respectfully submitted,

Ferdinand T. Cat


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I'm just a wee tad ticked that no one has sent me a copy of the e-.

What? I have no enemies evil enough to do that? (OK, I do, but they're not necessarily also smart enough to use email. I think most of them live in "Assisted Computing Facilities" where thay have to timeshare Computer Aides. "Here, let me click that mouse button for you Mr Evil Enemy." :-)


Posted by: David at January 8, 2006 8:14 PM

HTML is not allowed in comments; however, if you put in a raw URL (http://www.somewhere.com/page.html) it will automatically be converted to a link.. Also, it is likely your comment will not appear unless you refresh the page manually after posting it.

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