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If anyone has been plagued with emails purporting to be CNN top 10 news stories or emails saying that your flash plaer is out of date and needs upgrading or that your PDF reader ( usually Adobe) is also out of date and needs updating DO NOT FOLLOW THESE LINKS they are vicious spyware The emails themselves appear genuine and are copies of genuine ones BUT and its a BIG one the links they lead to are .EXE files that are not what they say. DELETE all such emails until the anti virus guys get ahead of this game. Its harder then usual as the Virus is not in the email itself but is downloaded as a result of following the link which you believe is to update something like your PDF reader or your FLASH player is another one they are using.That is the point at which you will be infected.
If you want the latest PDF Reader or FLASH player go direct to ADOBE own site and get it for yourself!!
Paul Jamison
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John..
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Toe is in the water |
Registered: March 2008
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Thanks paul
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marc
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Needs to get a life! |
Registered: March 2003
Messages: 4729
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I never open any email if I am not expecting it or know the sender very well.
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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To back you up, Paul, I have just received the following from my IT adviser:
"More than a thousand hacked Web sites are serving up fake Flash Player software to users duped into clicking on links in mail that's part of a massive spam attack masquerading as CNN.com news notifications, security researchers said today. The bogus messages, which claim to be from the CNN.com news Web site, include links to what are supposedly the day's Top 10 news stories and Top 10 news video clips from the cable network. Clicking on any of those links, however, brings up a dialog that says an incorrect version of Flash Player has been detected and that tells users they needed to update to a fake newer edition, which delivers a Trojan horse — identified by multiple names, including Cbeplay.a — that 'phones home' to a malicious server to grab and install additional malware."
Hugs
N
I dream of boys with big bulges in their trousers,
Never of girls with big bulges in their blouses.
…and look forward to meeting you in Cóito.
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I have never had a software update arrive via an email. They always come through the Internet directly, and a little balloon will appear in the lower right part of the screen saying "Updates are ready for your computer. Click here to install these updates." The computer salesman warned me about accepting email offers for upgrades. He said the ones "the little balloon tells you about are the real ones." I've had Adobe and Java upgrades arrive the same way. Directly through the computer and never through emails.
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Thats one of the points in having Norton or McAffee. Anything coming or going on the internet on my machine is monitored. No, it doesnt slow my machine down.
If you stand for Freedom, but you wont stand for war, then you dont stand for anything worth fighting for.
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Your Norton or McAfee will not stop thse emails as there is no virus in the actual email at all it is at the site thet the so called news stories redirect you too. Many news items use Flash and therefore it's not inconceivable that a site would ask you to upgrade your flash player.
It is at that point that you will get the Virus ... Norton and Macafee could well find it if you do daily updates AVG and Bit Defender seem to be aware too
Paul.
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Norton updates daily without me having to do anything. Since they would have to send the virus downline during the download Norton would catch it. Even if it got thru and Norton got an antivirus later it would catch it and isolate it during a system scane.
Sweet dreams till sunbeams find you......
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