My oldest daughter opened her Boston College (she's a doctoral candidate) epostcard of some sort email with her sister's work notebook the other day and it was a trojan/worm (my doom, I guess). My younger daughter did have Norton and I guess it went crazy stopping it from sending out more infections. They called me in a panic at work! In some respects it was somewhat humorous their reaction, at first I thought they'd been in an accident or something. We still aren't 100% sure they stopped it. Anyway, watch out U.S. for 4th ecards today!
I've read something similar about (possibly) the same attack vector...the salient identifying feature being the words "a family member has sent you a..."
Basically, don't open postcards/greeting cards if the "family member" isn't identified by name.
Is that part of the form your daughter's e-card took, slowday?
I've read something similar about (possibly) the same attack vector...the salient identifying feature being the words "a family member has sent you a..."Basically, don't open postcards/greeting cards if the "family member" isn't identified by name.
Is that part of the form your daughter's e-card took, slowday?
Sorry, not really sure!
http://www.sophos.com/security/blog/2007/07/322.html
If anyone does open it Id suggest running a full scan with Kaspersky's online scanner and also running a rootkit scanner such as GMER as it will likely attempt to install windev-*-*.sys which is a component of the Nuwar/Storm worm (*=random numbers and letters)
Just looked my Opera Web Mail and there was a new e-mail from greetingCard.Org, titled: You've received a postcard from a neighbour! There was a address link with IP 71.131.36.247. Of course i didn't clicked that link. I went to greetingcard.org and noticed this alert: http://www.greetingcard.org/crisis_center.html
Beware!
I had one or so of these as well.
Using an IP Address as instead of a web address, screamed "fake" to me, so I naturally ignored it.