Comments | hi_may76: Don't be Phish-phood.

hi_may76

Don't be Phish-phood.

Mar 18, 2007 23:44

I'm cleaning out my email inbox. I've gotten a rash of phishing emails in the past month or so from senders claiming to be affiliated with "paypal" and "amazon". I've never had phishing (the sender claims to be a legitimate company, asking for the receiver to please update information) email sent to me before. I went to the real PayPal and Amazon ( Read more... )

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phynnboi_23 March 19 2007, 08:03:02 UTC

Phynngrrl got quite a doozy a while back. The email directed her to a legitimate-looking web page to enter personal information. They used all the same graphics as her bank's website and everything. The tip-off was that the URL was obviously for some bozo's homepage, complete with the name of the ISP right in there. It looked like www . geocities . com / ~dumbass / www . bankofstuff . com / verificationform.html . It wasn't actually on geocities, but it might as well have been. :P

I'm still having problems with trojans. It's very strange. I run a tighter ship than either of the other two people on my network, and am very picky about the software I run, yet I'm the only one who's having trojan troubles. Something isn't adding up!

hi_may76 March 19 2007, 08:11:50 UTC

Well, since I'm horribly awake, I might as well run another Norton Virus/Spyware scan.

I just cleaned my Mom's machine tonight with a Norton Spyware scan. Something like 85 spyware and 1500 cookies I deleted. It was taking her computer 5 friggin' minutes to open Explorer. So, I defragged it. It now moves like larded skis on icepack.

I tried that one antivirus download you mentioned a while back. I ended up deleting it. It seemed like it needed to update and download stuff every time I turned on my computer.

phynnboi_23 March 19 2007, 19:38:16 UTC

You can turn AVG Free's auto-updating off if you want--it's in the "scheduler" off the program's main window. How do you handle updates with Norton?

ceejishi March 19 2007, 11:01:02 UTC

I got that paypal one a couple of weeks ago. I wasn't sure of its veracity, but I forwarded it to their fraud department, anyway. I figure that if I ever need paypal again I'll just type their url into the address box myself and check to see if my cards are good.