January 3rd, 2007How Could I be so Stupid
I got an email yesterday from some e-postcard site that looked legit when I went to the homepage. The gist of the email was, “a family member has sent you an e-postcard.” Being that I get e-cards all the time, I didn’t think anything of it, I checked out the main site, and decided to look at the card meant for me.
Problem.
The link to my oh-so-very special postcard just for me started an automatic download of a trojan horse.
Great.
Avast (my anti-virus software) seems to do a pretty good job. I got a warning before the download was complete, and Avast deleted the file. But I’m still nervous about it. A full scan by Avast and Ad-aware have been run and I didn’t see anything too hinky when I ran Hijack-This. It still makes me nervous.
Doh!
January 3rd, 2007 at 3:27 pm
Jeez, that sucks! I would’ve clicked on that one, too. I’d really catch flak as this is a work computer.
Hope everything stays okay for you.
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January 3rd, 2007 at 5:32 pm
Don’t you two read the links in your email before clicking on them? I got the same email. Saw it linked to an .EXE file so I just deleted it. Gotta be careful.
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January 4th, 2007 at 1:12 am
I probably would have clicked on it too…glad your software caught it!
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January 4th, 2007 at 1:24 am
S’all good. Spankin’ clean computer here.
Bruce, heh heh, hence the title!
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January 4th, 2007 at 6:04 am
I try to be careful but sometimes the emails look so innocent … :|
Fortunately I haven’t been caught in a while but I do run an excellent anti-virus program as well as weekly adware and spyware scans.
To err is human … That’s my story and I’m stickin’ to it!
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January 4th, 2007 at 8:44 am
I’ve done that a couple times! Good thing you have an anti-virus.
Thanks for your visit. I slacked off in March of last year too :o)
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January 4th, 2007 at 7:06 pm
L always warned me about the .EXE part too, but….I get a lot of ecards from friends too.
Do you remember the name of the fake company?
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