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RE: [RC] Bank Of America Post -VERY BAD - David LeBlancA couple more things - Everyone on Windows should upgrade to IE 7. It's free, a lot more secure, and has anti-phishing stuff built in. If you're running some other Web browser, it probably has some other way to do it, and please keep it up to date since all the browsers (on all operating systems) have had lots of security problems. If you're security minded, and have the chance, upgrade to Vista as soon as you can - there's some serious improvements. It's also just cool - really nice UI. Lynne's right - these aren't viruses. It's far worse - a live hacker trying to get your bank information. If you're using the full Office Outlook (not Outlook Express), then it is a good thing to set up your mail so that only people on your contacts list and approved senders go into your inbox. Everything else goes in your junk mail. This keeps images from coming up, so the spammers don't know if you got it. Any links to web sites don't show up as links, and if you want to go to the page, you have to copy and paste (or put the mail in your inbox). Better yet, it shows you where the link really goes to. I can post exact directions if people are interested. If you're on some web-based e-mail, I'm not sure what helps, though they usually have reasonable anti-spam built in. If you're running a Mac, you still need to pay attention - there's a lot of underground, not publicly known attacks and attackers using them. You should still keep things up to date, use firewalls, and so on. And phishing is completely independent of anything else you do - all it needs is gullible people who make mistakes. Here's another good tip - I've noticed that Ebay and Paypal both spam you with lots of mail. Go to one of the web-based e-mail systems (Hotmail, Yahoo, gmail, etc), and set up an account just for that. That way, if you get Ebay or Paypal mail coming to your main account, you know it's phishing. BTW, while the list below is good, don't consider a NAT (network address translation) to be a security measure. Any of these that you're likely to buy for less than $1000 are what's called a 'cone NAT', and is very easy to get around. A serious stateful proxy firewall isn't so easy to get around, though these aren't perfect either. -----Original Message----- From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lynne Glazer Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 11:33 AM To: D'Arcy Demianoff-Thompson; ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Camp Subject: Re: [RC] Bank Of America Post -VERY BAD D'Arcy: This is NOT A VIRUS. It's phishing, trying to find live recipients and personal info that can later be exploited. See wikipedia.org for a definition. Phishing e-mails aren't targeting your hard disk as many of the viruses do. PC people have to be especially vigilant about security--a firewall, maybe network address translation, anti- malware, and of course anti-virus software. And the stuff needs to be updated all the time. 1. Keep your e-mail client set to not automatically "load images" if an e-mail with images is open. Giving time to evaluate whether or not it's junk or phishing. 2. Consider running Really Good spam filtering software. SpamSieve on the Mac side is my current favorite. I agree with looking at the subject/sender, using discretion about what one opens and doesn't--just like stuff in the snail-mail box, some things just need to be junked. Lynne On Dec 3, 2006, at 11:20 AM, D'Arcy Demianoff-Thompson wrote:Do not open this email. Just delete it. More than likelyeveryone onRide Camp needs to get Norton Internet Security virsusprotection andNorton SystemWorks on their computer. Someone on RC has a worm / virus / trojan. Their email account is being used to getthrough toRC email list.=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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