“It used to be e-mail spam, while annoying, wasn’t that harmful.
Things have changed. During the last day I received e-mails
promising that they contained news about March Madness; Sandra
Bullock’s possibly misbehaving husband; and Michael Jackson’s
estate making a deal for a mint of money. Every last one of them
contained a link to Windows malware.“I know this because, running a Linux system, I could safely
visit these bogus Websites and watch Windows malware smack on my PC
like bugs on a windshield. Most users though, if they’d clicked on
through these links, could have ended up with one or more of the
latest and greatest of Windows viruses.”
Don’t trust that Web Address!
By
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
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