Monday April 14, 2003

Lesson #291: How to spot a virus.

In today's mailbox we find an email that appears to be directly from Microsoft. Wow, they really care! Forget for a moment that Microsoft has never sent mail before, much less security updates via email. No the thing that identifies this as a virus, the smoking gun if you will, is the closing statement:

With friendly greetings,
Microsoft Network Technical Assistance

Right, like Microsoft would ever say that.