I just got this e-mail that is obviously a virus stored in an attachment … I’m passing it along because I almost fell for it and clicked on the attachment (wouldn’t have mattered in my case .. these things never attack Macs).<\/p>\n
From: staff@mangan.com
\nDate: Mon Mar 22, 2004 6:01:26 PM US\/Pacific
\nTo: tom@mangan.com
\nSubject: E-mail technical support warning.
\nAttachments: There is 1 attachment<\/p>\n\nHello user of Mangan.com e-mail server,<\/p>\n
\nOur main mailing server will be temporary unavaible for next two days,
\nto continue receiving mail in these days you have to configure our free
\nauto-forwarding service.<\/p>\n\nFor details see the attached file.<\/p>\n
\nSincerely,
\nThe Mangan.com team
\n
http:\/\/www.mangan.com<\/p><\/blockquote>\nThere’s an attachement called “text.pif.”<\/p>\n
I knew this was a scam because there is no such thing as a “mangan.com” team … mangan.com is a domain owned by a company called netidenity; I rent a subdomain from them called tom.mangan.com, which is how I get my tom@mangan.com e-mail address. Furthermore, there is no way on earth a company would allow its e-mail server to be unavailable for two days.<\/p>\n
But I could see how somebody could easily be fooled by this technique … if I had a yahoo.com or hotmail.com address, I’d have no way to know the message wasn’t from those companies.<\/p>\n
Lesson to be learned is: never click on any<\/i> unexpected attachment in an e-mail. There will be times when friends, co-workers or business people will trade attachments, but you must be absolutely positive that you’re getting something you’ve already requested. Anything else is apt to be carrying a virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I just got this e-mail that is obviously a virus stored in an attachment … I’m passing it along because I almost fell for it and clicked on the attachment (wouldn’t have mattered in my case .. these things never…<\/p>\n