VIRUS ALERT: Fake Firewall Security Update Email

Beware of emails with the following Subect Line:
Subject: Please update your Firewall as soon as possible
We have found that it was from a bogus site with the following information:
From: “Firewall Update Notification”
The message is trying to get you to believe that your firewall needs updating as soon as possible.
As you can see it came [...]

What the heck is a “greeding e-card”?

If you are like me you are probably getting tired of all the spam in your email Inbox. By now you probably know that it is mostly by people who would like to steal your identity. People who are obviously not of this country or are not of a level of intelligence to be sending [...]

Cyber Criminals Target Twitter to spread Fake Antivirus software

The cyber criminals are at it again. They are trying to infect you with their bogus, Fake antivirus software using the ever popular Twitter.
They are doing this by generating thousands of tweets that contain malicious URLs and/or hashtags (words starting with a ‘#’ as in #followfriday, also known as trending topics).
They are hoping that you [...]

Fake Microsoft Security Alert – KB910721

I had a customer receive an email containing the following which was picked up by my email SPAM Filter.
Update for Microsoft Outlook / Outlook Express (KB910721)
The email also contained a link that looks legitimate for you to download the update. Don’t  do it!
ALERT!!! If you get an email like this, IT is a FAKE! DO [...]