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Virus in emails

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Anubis08

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I recently was checking my emails and I got one in my spam folder saying "Important, critical security updates for Windows". It was actually a .exe virus (duh). I was not dumb enough to open it but I am just wondering how many people you all think opened it. It actually seems like a good scam to me because you know people would open it if they had windows and were not up-to-date enough to recognize something's up. It would take away the possibility of failure to infect due to wrong os. I use linux by the way, but all the security in the world is not going to help someone when they open a ticking bomb like that.

I think I just felt like ranting a little. Think about it. They can write code that can screw up anyone's computer. How would they like it if someone took a sledgehammer to theirs. I guess it is less anonymous though...
 
I like to keep those and forward them to people I don't like, I also have a small collection of nigerian solicitations for cash and "please update your bank account information" emails.
 
I would hope the majority of people would be smart enough to realize that microsoft wouldn't use email to send out updates :Q There's been an awful lot of advice about "don't open programs from emails" and I think most people have heard it. I know not everyone's savvy but... really, that's a pretty obvious one.
 
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