craigt Posted November 8, 2009 Share Posted November 8, 2009 Just stumbled across this while I was reading some news... http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20091108/ap_...virus_framed_me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geek Posted November 8, 2009 Share Posted November 8, 2009 That was a popular trick when I first got on the net in the 90's. I guess the old can become new again. Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farelf Posted November 9, 2009 Share Posted November 9, 2009 Could be a timely heads up, with regard to the possibility of that old trick of e-mailed exploits. Amongst my somewhat rare spam there's a 'received ... for' Cyrillic thing with a large-ish MS Word attachment (600K - would be considered huge just a few years ago), the base64 representation of which worries McAfee's hueristics (VirusTotal submission). Call me suspicious but I don't think the real Irina Bogacheva (Ирина Богачева) is going to beg me to get acquainted (ОзнакомьтеÑÑŒ пожалуйÑта) in an unsolicited and decidedly over-weight email. I'm certainly not going to open the thing (or even the e-mail) to test that hunch. http://www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z3482253556z0...3cdd1f5b174316z FWIW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lking Posted November 9, 2009 Share Posted November 9, 2009 Yes you would think that a Cyrillic 'lets be friends' would attract fewer then the current flood I'm getting "from" facebook. Many a day, they all look alike, phishing I would guess. What I find interesting is that 1/8-1/4 of the ones I get contain a Trojan in the attached zip file. Yesterday I noticed that they are switching from Facebook to MySpace. The dance goes on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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