|
Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on December 4, 2007, 7:34 pm
If you were Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options
Craig Fox wrote:
> I just received a fraudulent email, supposedly from 'Hallmark.com',
> inviting me to view an e-card which contained the Win32:Zapchast-CR
> Trojan virus - fortunately Avast detected it.
Yes, fortunately. And you hope the trojan wasn't actually installed.
Begs the question, do you click on every link someone or something sends
you? :-)
> I'm just wondering - how do these morons obtain email addresses in
> the first place? Have they hacked into Hallmark's database?
How do they obtain *your* address? Same as all the rest of the spammers.
They harvest it from .. a website guestbook you posted to; they make it
up; one of your friends has it in their address book and contracted a
worm which read the address book. The sources are endless. And no, they
didn't get it from "hallmark."
> I never use my real address in newsgroups, nor when signing up for
> anything, I use a Yahoo account in those cases.
See above about friends with worms and viruses. I do notice you are
using the munge of "here.com" which is apparently owned by a Michael
Grossman of Herndon, Virginia. You are doing him a disservice by using
his domain (causing spam to be sent to it). Use "example.com" or
"example.invalid" which will prevent spam being sent to a real person.
--
-bts
-Motorcycles defy gravity; cars just suck
| 
XML site map