[Cialug] Subtle spam attacks

kristau kristau at gmail.com
Wed Feb 27 18:24:20 CST 2008


On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Josh More
<morej at alliancetechnologies.net> wrote:
> There are malware attacks that harvest Outlook address books.  It sounds
>  like one of yours was harvested and the data is now in the hands of some
>  spammer.
>
>  You might want to check that all of your antimalware apps are running
>  properly.

I agree.  It sounds like one of your own or one (or more) of your
clients' address books got nabbed by a spammer.

Discontinue use of the address book in Outlook immediately and issue
Rolodex units to all employees.  :-D

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