Scam from MOC

[wswebster]

Went straight to Junk then I deleted

[SlickWillie]

http://www.us-cert.gov/reading_room/virus.html#email Handy tips on this government site for avoiding viruses. I've run the free version of Avast for two or three years now. Never got a virus through email.

I do know you can get them on sites you regularly use. I frequent a fishing forum, and once when I went on the site, Avast popped up and told me the site contained a Trojan Horse. I thought, now way, so I went on to the site. Turns out, someone from Germany had hacked the site and installed a TH virus.

[herewegotogether]

Just checked my e-mail thought it was fishy and came ome to the MOC to see if it was a scam.
Thanks for the heads up of the scam.

[farmboy]

I marked it as spam without opening it.

[Waynem]

The site that Will posted has a good description of getting a virus from reading email. You have to be knowledgeable of scripting to insert a virus, and then you have to send in HTML format. All my emails are plain text, just for that reason. I know, I know, many people like to have the different colors, and fancy fonts, etc., that just cannot be done with plain text without a lot of trouble. But plain text is truly safer.

If you receive an email with links, just don't click on them unless you know the sender, and trust the sender. A study was done some years back regarding how many people will click on a link knowing a virus is there. The results were staggering. Curiosity, like "I'm protected, I have security software in place." CLICK!