Comments on: Worm uses familiar brands to lure people

Offers supposedly from McDonald's, Coca-Cola, and Hallmark are spreading a new mass-mailing worm, say security vendors.

[Brian]

Good thing those Windows .exe files don't work on a Mac!

Life is good. :)

[_sandman_]

They also dont work on Linux :)

If you run a virus in WINE, nothing really happens...

[Perry_Clease]

Today I received an email that supposedly came from the US Post Office. It said:

"Unfortunaly we couldn?t carry you the postal parcel sent on 28, October at the right time
as there is an incorrect recipient?s address.

To take your package back you should print the copy of invoice that is in the added file

Your UPS"


Of course I was suspicious from the get go and deleted the message, but with this being the season for mailing packages there may be people who will fall for it. Let see, UPS is either my backup battery or United Parcel Service and not the abbreviation for the USPS

[42istheanswer]

why? Why does this stuff continue to work? Every windows users should pack up their PC and ship it back to the vendor.

[superswiss]

Because the user is effectively the weakest part on a computer. Look what happened to malware. Windows has become harder and harder to penetrate and fixes for newly discovered vulnerabilities are quickly released. Malware has moved away from OS malware to social malware. There's no patch to fix the stupidity of the user. Be careful what you wish for. If Windows users start ditching their PCs and go buy a Mac, these emails will start having OS X executables attached. The average Mac user is not any smarter than the average Windows user.

[theused22]

Just dont be stupid.. everyone I know hasn't ever gotten a virus becasue of being smart and not looking at bad porn sites, maybe you should try this when using windows too.

[chedrz]

I got a great one yesterday from PayPaI. You can't tell, but that "l" is an "i". They told me someone had tried to get into my account and that it had been frozen until I logged back in properly and provided more credentials. The link to the website led to an Italian domain. Last time I checked, PAYPAL was based in America...hmm...

[Perry_Clease]

"I got a great one yesterday from PayPaI. You can't tell, but that "l" is an "i"... The link to the website led to an Italian domain."

That would be for pay pai as in paisan :)

[bruceslog]

Yeah, I got that one too... didn't open it.. sent the headers and message source to the Real Paypal spoof department.

[sbaxter]

Thanks for the headsup!

[therad456]

Thanks a lot for the warning.

[starbuddy1995]

this is interesting and thanks Cnet and those who helped to deliver this heads up

[jtoylady]

I have gotten more than one of these,I sent them all to the real paypal.
you can usually tell when it is a fraudulent site ,just look carefully at the spelling ,the way it is worded and the content.there is always something that will give it away!

[chonkers]

eBay is another biggie to watch for....I received one claiming that i have an outstanding product i have not paid for and eBay will be closing me down...just check into your paypal account and all will be cool......

yup, ok....i never even ordered a diamond necklace.....that was the giveaway and i have not bought anything through eBay....although i do use paypal on occassion

i gotta tell ya tho....it nearly had me....i really thought for a while i had bought this....be careful out there dudes