On Sunday 19 Oct 2003 7:51 pm, Charlie M. wrote: > > > > While I was away several people told me that they were just doing > > something quite normal, 'and then I got the virus. And I had > > done what Microsoft said in their message'. I know it's > > ridiculous expecting virus writers to play fair, but this > > particular scam is the one most likely to trap otherwise wary > > people. Aarrgghhh! I'm not usually a violent person, but I'd > > like to hang, draw and quarter the person that thought this one > > up. > > > > Anne > > Thanks for an opportunity to join a rant Anne. (-; > > The sad part is that so many people will be taken in by such > transparent "social engineering" crap. I spend more time de-worming > infected Windows boxes than I do at anything else, and I'm not even > trying to make a living at it. > My daughter gets her email through Mozilla on windows98. She carefully deletes everything that she doesn't recognise as genuine mail. She runs antivirus and keeps it up to date. Still she keeps getting virused emails in from the people who are on a mailing group that she must use - the av software tells her it's there, but it's too late. They can't fully activate, of course, under Mozilla, as they can't launch the appropriate M$ apps to do it, but they still manage to corrupt several files each time. The cab files are always corrupted, and so is a java file. Occasionally there's one or two more - this time there were two downloaded zip files corrupted.
Quite apart from the time I spend on this, it makes me very angry that she takes every precaution a non-geek can be expected to take, and yet still she suffers this regularly. As to where they come from - I think without exception they have come from people who send their mails through their work account, in local hospitals! Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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