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ElizabethF	OT READ ME: Warning: Holiday Themed Email Viruses	Lead	[-]
Posts: 17626 (12/04/08 07:32:52) Board Administrator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Tags : None Please be aware that emails from well know companies offering coupons or Christmas postcards from Postcards.org, Greetings.com, or Hallmark.com may contain viruses. Do not open any attached file or click any link in the email. HOLIDAY COUPONS: An alert has been issued warning that holiday coupon e-mails from familiar companies may be malicious code in disguise, in this case a mass-mailing e-mail worm. The warning cites one spoofed McDonald's e-mail that claims to present their latest discount menu, and asks the recipient to print out the attached coupon. A similar mailing pretending to be from Coca-Cola asks recipients to print out details about their new online game, and also offers recipients a chance to win Coca-Cola drinks for life. The attached zip file contains files named either coupon.exe or promotion.exe, both of which contain dropper files for remote access Trojan horses. POSTCARDS.ORG/GREETINGS.COM The email messages, spoofed to appear as though they have been sent from postcards.org, display an animated Christmas scene. A URL link within the email leads to a malicious file called postcard.exe hosted on various servers, including those in the .com TLD space. HALLMARK.COM: An identified third holiday-themed e-mail using the Hallmark brand carries the malware used as W32/Xirtem@MM and says this particular worm carries a built-in SMTP engine that mass-mails copies of itself to e-mail addresses harvested from an infected machine. Thank you! Your friendly board admin Elizabeth Last Edited By: ElizabethF 12/04/08 07:40:56. Edited 1 time.
Mommy38		#1	[-]
Posts: 179 (12/04/08 07:41:01) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I am always wary of thing sent to me--If the email is something I would want to open I often check out the companies website to see if the email matches up to what is on their site, or go to snopes.com to check validity out first or check to see if my friend sent the card. Otherwise, I just delete it--no coupon or card is worth a virus. We have already had to replace one computer due to virus that could not be completely removed. Its a shame people dont have better things to do than create malicous programs to ruin other peoples computers. The time and talent spent to be mean could be put to much better use. Last Edited By: Mommy38 12/04/08 07:44:33. Edited 1 times.
ElizabethF		#2	[-]
Posts: 17632 (12/04/08 07:43:05) Board Administrator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I agree. It is so mean to do something like that, especially to take advantage of the holidays! It sucks, because I like to send out a Jacquie Lawson X-mas card every year and I know a lot of folks are probably scared to open it because of that. Elizabeth

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