I just got this e-mail. I laughed.<\/p>\n
Good day.\n\nYou have received an eCard\nTo pick up your eCard, choose from any of the following options:\nClick on the following link (or copy & paste it into your web browser):\n\nhttp:\/\/example.com\/e-card.exe\n\nYour card will be aviailable for pick-up beginning for the next 30 days.\nPlease be sure to view your eCard before the days are up!\nWe hope you enjoy you eCard.\nThank You!<\/blockquote>\nAn eCard from a domain I’ve never heard of, with a .exe attachment? I don’t think so. (Note that the actual domain wasn’t example.com, but I wanted to ensure that my blog post about a virus didn’t result in someone visiting it…)<\/p>\n
But there are probably a lot of people who would have gotten that e-mail and merrily visited it to see their eCard, without thinking, “I shouldn’t visit links from strangers,” much less, “I shouldn’t visit links that end in .exe.”<\/p>\n
Though presumably, at least some of the people who blindly followed it would catch on when trying to view their eCard prompted them to download a file. But I think this shows why user education is so important. To me, and probably to most readers here, it’s almost comically obvious that that link would be a virus. And yet, since they keep sending out e-mails like this, I have to think that they’re getting a decent number of people with them.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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