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Zombie makers turning to fake greeting cards

Robert McMillan writes in NetworkWorld:

The next e-mail greeting card you get may come with a nasty surprise. According to Internet security vendor SurfControl, attackers are increasingly using fake e-mail greeting cards as a way of getting malicious software installed on computers.

In fact, the amount of malicious e-mail being disguised as e-mail greeting cards is up about 90% from last year and now makes up more than half of all malicious e-mail being sent, according to Paris Trudeau, a product marketing manager with SurfControl.

posted by Fergie @ 7/19/2005 05:50:00 AM