Watch out!

[Ron Parker]

Sponsored by TWIST - Tablet Weavers International Studies & Techniques

Do NOT respond to greeting card notices until you read below.

There's a greeting card company doing a rather creative spin on spam. It installs a program on visitors' computers to allow them to read its e-cards, but the program also automatically spams all their Outlook address book contents with a similar card and sends them to porn sites. The bad thing is, its all "legal" because its in the user agreement you have to click through to read the ecard.

There is also the problem that if you agree to the terms, then you may be guilty of sending spam through your ISP

(no really, its true)

Here's the stories:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/826033.asp
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/27794.html

and here's a site discussing the program and contents of the email.

http://www.messagelabs.com/viruseye/report.asp?id=111

Interestingly, not all anti-virus companies are even calling it a virus.
Worth a read.

Ron

Ron Parker, Tabletweaving List Mom <mailto:twmom@;rbparker.com>
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