While it would great if Angelina Jolie was friends with us on facebook, we all must accept that her campaign to get everyone to join the popular social networking site is nothing more than spam. Our inboxes have been flooded with the oscar winning actresses pleas to join as well as requests to reset our twitter password. The Twitter emails simply have Twitter, then a series of numbers, like Twitter 322-65 . These are also fake and don’t warrant a click.

Whatever the spambot pumping these out is doing a great job of creating a flood. Filters and awareness will help, as well as the reality that few of us are friends with really famous people.

The Amazon deals of the day and blue pill specials continue as the spammers push to infect your computer with a Zbot Trojan. If your antivirus solution doesn’t pick them up then it might be time to get a new solution. Remember to never open attachements from someone you do not know. Also no one will send you a ZIP or EXE file as an email attachment, if they are, double check to make sure they *did* infact intend to do that. PDFs are currently the most common attack vector into your computer. Our managed services clients computers a protected from these attacks. If your not monitored and protected by Hermetic Networks, then I would recommend talking to your IT staff to ensure you are.