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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."
Hi. I'm Troy McClure. You might remember me from such e-mail how-to videos as "Nigeria: Your Path to Riches" and "Can I Lengthen my Penis 73 inches if I answer 22 emails?"
You mean it could overwrite /usr/bin/xmms?
-- Real programmers don't comment their code. It was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
But that's a cool feature!
What next? Should I stop using Outlook???
"I've said it before, and it's worth repeating... turn off HTML viewing in your email client, and do it now!... It's an easy way to protect yourself from all sorts of stupid stuff... Ahem, turn off HTML viewing in your email client NOW.
I misread that as "turn off HTML viewing in your web browser NOW", and wondered why it wasn't marked as funny...
Well, it would make some things safer...
Was the (Cough) "new feature" originally only intended for internal use (where they know how really risky using their own products can be), or is Regedit going to replace menus in future versions of Windows?