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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."
I use windows xp, and before that I used windows 98. I also use Linux, and I know Unix inside out. I don't know much about windows except the fact that I can run all sorts of programs, including cygwin. But I have never had any single problem regarding the security of my machine, though I had problems with linux, particularly my machine was hacked once. It was probably because of apache I believe, but I found it much more easier to make a windows box secure. With Linux you have to spend too much time to make it secure, compared to windows. With windows everything is already done by someoneelse. On Linux you rely on either yourself or distro managers and sometimes distro managers are late to include the patches and this makes things really hard for users.
first post!!! you lame assholes... I can post first because my XBox is a american product and my pride in my great country and my great XBox accelerate everything...
If only they would make games for that bitch... IAve played Metroid Prime and it ruled... I hope M$ will buy those japanese bastards and port Metroid to my great american console system!!!
Whether it is just in the online computer parts market or in the spamming arena, I've come to the conclusion that most Russians, and indeed other eastern europeans, are just a bunch of criminals.
criminals are YOU!
A large fortune to anyone who creates an anti-spyware/adware package for Windows users who don't know the slightest bit about vulnerabilities like this. I'll pay lots of money for it. Until then, I'm still happy to charge people $50/hr to remove this crap.
Alternatively, create a replacement for IE and Outlook that *look* like IE and Outlook. With this, I'll be able to replace Microsoft products with good (and possibly open-source) products without people bitching that they don't know how to use it.
I still use IE because Mozilla doesn't SHIFT+Click with the same behavior (open in new window) as IE. I don't care if Mozilla is better because old habits are *very* difficult to break. It only takes about a month of screwing up the shift+click thing before I uninstall Mozilla and go back to IE. I won't even talk about that stupid dinosaur splash screen.
Help!
Life is the leading cause of death in America.