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Obama Virus

Hackers and phishers are taking advantage of your need for election news by using President-elect Barack Obama's name to get you to click on links and run programs that will infect your machine with malware.

Phishers are Using Bank Failures to Increase Scam Success

There has been a great deal of news of financial institution failures. Many banks have been swallowed up by larger institutions and mergers seem to be occurring almost on a weekly basis. Unfortunately, the troubled banking situation has opened up a door for Internet scams and phishing attacks.

UPS Virus

A computer virus has been circulating as an email attachment. The “From” address indicates that the email came from a UPS representative. The virus is a zip file attachment with the names of “ups_invoice.zip” or “ups_tracking.zip”, or some variance thereof. The email is usually found to have the title of “UPS Tracking Number xxxxx” and states that a package you sent was not able to be delivered and that you are required ...

Are Spammers Ruining Your Good Name?

A friend recently asked me a question about email messages. He wanted to know why he was receiving notifications that his email was "undeliverable" to person "xyz" when he doesn't even know "xyz" and insists he never sent the message. So what happened? Did his computer get hacked? Did he get a virus? Probably not. This is a symptom of a clever trick used by spammers.

9 Tips to Less Spam

We get spam because it works. The reason spam works is really just a numbers game. A spam email campaign that targets 10 million email addresses, can lead to 100,000 to 500,000 or so clicks.