Virus Warning: CNN Daily Top Ten

[Freebird]

This one is really rampant right now. I've personally received the email almost every day for the past week. If you receive it, do NOT click on any of the links to open them.

 

http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/fbi-facebook.asp

[rosebud]

This one has been slipping past the firewalls at work. I've had it all week, and today there were 4 CNN emails in my inbox this morning. I've been deleting it since I've never subscribed to CNN, but my co-worker almost opened the ones in his inbox today. Be very careful!

[GigaWhiskey]

I haven't had a virus in about 10 years. The last time I had a virus was when it renamed the norton directory and collapsed the application (Windows PC). I got rid of norton shortly after. I use McAfee now, it is free to me, on any Windows PC I use.

 

One major tip in not getting so much spam is to not enter your full email address where a web spider can pick it up and add it to a list. I may only see one spam email about once every 4 or 5 months.

 

Naturally, the other tip is to switch to a MAC.

[juggler]

Yeah I know - my mail server has been kicking that message out of the spool for a few days.

 

Yesterday and today I've been fighting a SQL injection attack at work and on my own servers. I won the fight.

 

It seems that all I've done for the past few days is combat hackers.