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Malicious E-Cards - An Analysis of Spam
smashr writes "I ran across this article the other day which is a rather clear analysis of a piece of malicious spam the author received. While most of us simply hit the delete key, the author has taken the time to see exactly what is going on when an innocent user clicks on one of these fake e-cards that are going around. From Russian spyware sites to over-writing wmplayer.exe this particular piece of spam is a rather nasty one."
Did you RTFA? I did, and failed to find anything untoward or even mildly "sensational" about the spylog section. There is no mention of any "Russian spyware site(s)" anywhere, and exactly one reference to Russia, which says:
Despite its malicous sounding name, all this file contains is the tracking code provided by a russian company, spylog.com. I couldn't figure out how to view the stats that are being compiled by spylog, but the author no doubt has access to these stats and can use them to figure out how many computers he has hijacked.
Exaclt what part of the above (benign) description do you think you "corrected" via your post?
everything in moderation
if it's from my mom or any girl for that matter, I turn HTML off.
Not a problem for you often, I take it.
News flash: you won't get cooties from reading email from a 'girl.'
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