mike watkins dot ca : Entries tagged with “Virus”

Entries tagged with “Virus”

March 14 2009

Fake Classmates, Facebook, Bank of America SPAM

There's a bad spam / malware (bad software) attack going on lately on the internet - if you ever get an email from what appears to be a company or organization that encourages you to download software, do not do it.

Follow this link to F-Secure.com (these are the people who write Shaw Secure for Canadian subscribers of Shaw).

http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001625.html

"The type of spam runs we saw late last year (Obama and BofA) are starting to pick up again in volume. We've seen Classmates being used as a theme and two days ago it was fake Facebook messages. Today it's back to fake Bank of America certificates."

Note the level of trickery the bad guys are going to - that graphic image looks quite convincing. Imagine your less technical friends and relatives - how would they treat the message? Help them learn what to do.

When in doubt, chuck it out.