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By Mary Landesman, About.com Guide to Antivirus Software since 2000

Upsurge in Greeting Card Malware

Monday August 18, 2008

Mixed in with the bogus breaking news alerts are new runs of malicious greeting cards. The spoofed 'from' address may include info@Greetings.com or greetingcard.org. The email may have a subject line that reads "You've received a greeting ecard". As is often the case, the bogus ecard email contains a link to an executable file, for example 'e-card.exe', 'postcard.exe', or something similar.

Remember: legitimate ecard providers don't push links pointing to executable files. If you receive such an email, delete it.

Tip: To unmask bogus links that are the hallmark of malicious scams, read all email in plain text only.

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August 19, 2008 at 6:41 pm
(1) software blog says:

thanks for the warning. Nice post.

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