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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	[quote] [b]NoJive said:[/b] Are we talking about opening a link in email from someone you know? [/quote] The effective worms/viruses/email trojans duplicate by concealing themselves. One tactic they use is to go through your address book and send emails to all your contacts. So Bill gets an email from you and says "Oh, this is from Fred..Fred would never send me a virus". Wrong and Gotcha...you're screwed. Problem is Fred doesn't know he is infected, doesn't know the malware is using his PC as a mail server...yep a server contained within a few bytes of code..not bad. I use outlook and my rules are very simple: any email sender not on my white list goes directly to junk. Any email in the junk folder I don't recognize gets deleted. I also never give my email to my bank etc...this way if I get an email from "my bank" I know its a phishing scheme. So know links, no attachments, not even a preview...click, delete. Nature & Travel Photography [url=http://www.sleepingwolves.com]Main Entrance[/url] [small](Edited by [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/user/6261]SleepingWolf[/url] on 01-26-2008 02:02)[/small] Loading...
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