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[greenyes] re: Bogus 'Management' emails


>These emails are worm attempts from someone else's
>rogue spam server. This rogue mail server and others like it
>masquerade as reputable email servers.
>In a bogus email, ostensibly from GRRN, you may
>see what look like links to GRRN, but are actually links
>to a worm, stored in your attachments during email download.
>If you don't have antivirus protection, this could
>really mess up your computer. Deployed worms can
>make your computer into a zombie that spams others
>with similar worm attempts without your even knowing it.

Oh. Aren't. They. Cute.

I got the bogus letter w/o the attachment. My ISP's AV filters must
have caught it.

(Goes off, grumbling, to warn a friend setting up a new website.)
--
I'm on a journey in search of myself.
If I get back first, let me know that I'm
looking for myself and don't let me leave.




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