New virus warning

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Apr 08, 2004, GCC Consulting wrote:

>Below is a copy of an e-mail I received from may daughter from her IT
>department

There have been a number of ``human engineering'' worms recently which
attempt to get the recipient to manually unzip and execute a file, often
password protected with the password in the body of the message.  These
often appear to have come from your ISP including URLs to their web server.
Close examination of Received: headers shows they don't come from the ISP.

I don't know any legitimate ISPs that would send executables to their
customers if there were problems.

Another common spam are the ``phishing'' messages that claim to be from
your bank, paypal, or other financial institutions, and say that you need
to confirm card or account data.

Some of these messages are fairly legitimate looking, and it's amazing how
many people fall for them.

...

Bill
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