Sunday, February 17, 2008

Beware if you get an egreeting!

I just received an email saying it is from 'egreetings.com' and the subject line reads 'You've received a greeting from a family member!'. 

What ever you do don't click on the link!!! If you run your mouse over the link (but don't click!) You should see that it shows the link as'http://host.pekod.ru/postcard.exe' even though it displays 'http://www2.postcards.org/?a91-valets-cloud-31337'. 

This is a common trick in emails such as phishing where they want you to think you are clicking an a familiar link but it is not what you think it is... If you click on this link it will actually execute the file named postcard.exe and who knows what it will install on your computer! 

You should never ever click on an .exe file if you don't know exactly what it is. Do a search in Google on 'postcard.exe' and you will see that other sites have info on this file and what it can do to your machine. 

 As always, if you know anyone with a Maytag Neptune front loader please have them go to my http://www.neptunewaxmotor.com/ site for valuable information to help keep their washer in tip top shape and get more reliability out of their machine.

Until next time...

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