Thursday, August 14, 2008

Don't click that headline, security researchers warn | News - Security - CNET News.com

Don't click that headline, security researchers warn | News - Security - CNET News.com:
"A flood of e-mails pretending to be from MSNBC contain links to malicious software, security companies warned Wednesday. ..."
These are similar to the "CNN Top Ten" emails that started last month and are still trickling in. One thing you can do to protect yourself is to do a mouseover on the linked URL and compare what the text says to what the URL really is. In Firefox and Inernet Explorer, the actual URL will appear on the bottom of the browser window.

These spammers are getting sneakier. They include actual links to such CNN or MSNBC pages as the privacy policy or the unsubscribe page, but redirect the story links to other locations.

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