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DEL.ICIO.USWarning: Don’t open that greeting card
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
It’s a fine way to celebrate your birthday or an anniversary: The electronic greeting card with best wishes arrives and all of a sudden you are broke.
A cyber criminal ring in Australia has been sending Yahoo Greetings e-mail notifications to hundreds of thousands of consumers. When you click on the link to get your greeting card you are first connected to a rogue server that attempts to infect your computer with a rootkit and a keylogger. Then, so that you don’t really suspect any problem, you are transfered to Yahoo to pick a real card.
The keylogger captures everything you type - user names, passwords, credit card numbers - enough stuff to clean out your wallet.
Read about it here and - for now at least - think twice about opening any electronic greeting card. Remember, once a scheme like this starts, it can be changed to use different companies, different cards.
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By likeaglove
September 22, 2006 06:56 PM | Link to this
How can we check to see if we have this rootkit installed on our computers?
By Pete Webb
September 23, 2006 04:23 PM | Link to this
Whenever I click on an email link in IE, I get an error message saying “the requested operation could not be performed because your mail client is not properly installed? I have no clue as to what could be wrong. I send & receive emails with no problem through my IP bellsouth.net. Can you help.
By Trudy
October 3, 2006 10:21 AM | Link to this
Can they be found? blocked? controlled? Can we disable their machines? their fingers? Will calm ever be in our vocabulary again? Religious freedom was the goal in our beginnings. Now there are too many goals. We need to manage ourselves, not the world. Let’s praise, thank, love and offer compassion to those around us to reach our calm.