Getting through Malware Monday
A government-supported workaround to the 2007 DNSChanger virus will expire on Monday, July 9, 2012. To see if your computer is infected, visit www.dns-ok.us. If you are infected, run a …
New USPS Shipment Virus Email
Here’s a new variation on the airline ticket virus email that I reported on last November. An email supposedly from the United States Postal Service says that I have a …
Fake LinkedIn Emails
Today’s suspicious emails supposedly come from LinkedIn. They look authentic, but the links actually take you away to bogus and potentially malicious web sites.
New FedEx Virus Email
Back in November, I wrote about an airline ticket virus email. Now it’s FedEx: today I received this email supposedly from FedEx with a zip file attachment: If you open …
New Airline Ticket Virus Email
Today I received an email supposedly from American Airlines with an Zip file attachment: If you open the zip file, you’ll see what looks like a Word document: However if …
“We Are Going to Sue You” Virus Spam
A new spam email warns that you will be sued—for sending spam! Don’t worry about being sued, but do worry about opening the attachment that purports to be a scanned …
“We Are Going to Sue You” Virus Spam
A new spam email warns that you will be sued—for sending spam! Don’t worry about being sued, but do worry about opening the attachment that purports to be a scanned …
Is This Driver Legitimate?
A user running Windows 7 Enterprise received this UAC prompt at logon about a driver installation. But she hadn’t attached any devices, so why is a driver trying to install? …
Identifying and Avoiding Fake Anti-Virus Programs
One of the biggest threats to your computer comes when you land on a web site containing a fake anti-virus warning. These sites try to trick you into installing a …
A RARe Virus Delivery Method
Yesterday I received the following email from someone I don’t know: The unusual thing is the attachment of type .rar. RAR is an archive format not as common as .zip …