Hawk’s Babble-Log

Definition for “phishing” is here on wikipedia.

I got an email like this today:

Dear user of facebook,

Because of the measures taken to provide safety to our clients,
your password has been changed.  You can find your new
password in attached document.

Thanks,
Your Facebook.

The email had an attachment, a .zip archive. RED FLAG! Facebook would never do this. The .zip archive contained malware. I scanned it with Sunbelt’s Vipre, but I’m not going to post exactly which one it was because that doesn’t matter. Never, ever open an attachment like this, even if it’s from one of your friends. If one of your friends gets themselves infected, their system will email you some generic-looking email and send you the attachment as well because you are in their address book, and that infected system will try to infect you.