[JA] Warning... e-card alert...
- From: George Lunt <glunt@xxxxxxxx>
- To: juno_accmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 17:07:21 -0800
[Cross-posted Juno_accmail and Freenet lists]
Hi All,
This was a news item on MSNBC yesterday... read the full story at:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/826033.asp?0si=-&cp1=1
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Wormlike e-card still spreading
Card turns PCs into spam generators, but is it a virus?
Users who try to view the e-card are warned they must install new
software and told in small print of the End User License Agreement that
the program will access the installer?s address book.
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Oct. 29 ? Net users continue to complain about a greeting card which is
making the rounds that behaves much like a computer virus. And the firm
that?s spreading the self-promoting message has apparently widened its
distribution efforts. On Tuesday, anti-virus researcher MessageLabs
revealed that the tricky e-cards are now being distributed at a new Web
site, Cool-Downloads.com, which is registered in Panama.
IT?S PART SPAM, part advertisement, part computer virus, part
e-greeting card ? but a complete nuisance. Anti-virus providers are
hearing from their customers about a suspicious e-mail that purports to
be a harmless electronic greeting card. But trying to pick up the card
has severe consequences: a copy of the e-card e-mail is sent to everyone
in the recipient?s Outlook e-mail address book, similar to the worm-like
behavior of the Melissa virus or the LoveBug.
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I'm not sure if you have to be an Outlook user to spread this, but you
don't have to be one to get it. There's also a very similar card
floating around that in effect tricks you into downloading spyware that
turns around and starts feeding you porn advertisements. These can come
to you very personalized. Addressed to you from somebody innocent
sounding enough. So "LET'S BE CAREFUL OUT THERE!"
George Lunt ..... so. cal.
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