Archive for May, 2010

Spam update: Please look my CV. Thank you ?

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

If your seeing this is quite the cunning spam currently being sent around. Playing on the down economy, spammers are sending bogus job applications and resumes around to anyone who will give a click. The email’s attachment is actually a virus, most likely from Zbot or another botnet. Even if your looking for a new employee, if the English is broken and the email nondescript, I’d reconsider opening that attachment.

Sorry for the delay in our weekly Spam post, we are in the middle of upgrading our datacenter, so look for new and exciting things in coming week as we begin to harness this new setup!

Weekly Spam Report

Monday, May 3rd, 2010

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.