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[Nightowl]

There is an email spam from CNN circulating - if you click on any of the links it downloads viruses/trojans.

see below for further info

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/08/07/faked-cnn-spam-blitz-pushes


It has an 'unsubscribe' link - don't click on it!

To deal with see:

http://www.411-spyware.com/remove/trojans

I have had this email and it's a pain in the backside. You'll get them every day.....mark them as spam even if you take no other action.
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[la vache!]

Thanks for posting that, Nightie! I've been getting them for a week or so, haven't clicked on any of the links, but did click on unsubscribe, but didn't get taken to any download screen. Is it definitely spam if you have never registered with CNN to receive the updates? I suppose so. I did a scan of my laptop today and no viruses were found, not sure if I should do anything else. I haven't received any today..yet!
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[tree-peony]

they're a right blinking nuisance

I've had 5 in the last hour. Not quite sure why my ISP isn't blocking them. It's definitely a nastie LV.
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[Jimbo]

I'm embarrassed to say that it nearly caught me. I read a lot of CNN stories, so I thought this website was legimate and clicked onto a news link. However, I became suspicious when it asked me to update my flash player and refused to cancel. I aborted the session and escaped from its clutches. Just goes to show that you can't relax for a second.

Jim

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[Nightowl]

I thought it was genuine at first and tried to unsubscribe,but kept getting them...

then my husband started getting them too and got suspicious. He just sent me an email alerting me it was a scam.

He's a bit keen for me not to get another virus, having spent about 3 days last week getting rid of a persistent virus of a similar nature that kept alerting me that I had a virus and that I needed to purchase software to get rid of it...
It was REALLY persistent and took a lot of getting rid - and he's in IT so he knows what he's doing. Every time he thought he'd got rid and we started up again, up it popped.

I got that one when I was surfing and clicked on a link to find about about leaky shower screens of all things.. I knew as soon as I clicked that it had downloaded something nasty.

So we were both on 'alert' in any case when this one popped up its ugly head.
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Forever going one step forwards and two
backwards......
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http://www.homelidays.com/london/apartment-flat190993en1.htm
http://www.homelidays.com/chiclana/house-villa70705en1.htm

[HelenB]

Gmail has kindly put all of them into my spam folder. As my webmail is also downloaded to Gmail, they've been deleted.

[e-richard]

[Big Sis..]

Well this alert has helped me...Thanks Nighty.

Only cos I looked in my gmail spam bit to see if it had arrived there...... and found a legitimate booking

I remember MG saying he sometimes had this happen..Good idea to check that everything in there is Spam
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[paolo]

You probably know this but just in case...
When you see a link in an email, the address you see is not necessarily where you will be taken. If you want to see where a link is going to take you, place your cursor over it without clicking, and the real address appears at bottom left of your browser if you are using Internet Explorer. If it says something like www.cnn.com/newsblablablaretc.htm it should be OK. The fake CNN email I got today links to a domain called rustyrecords.it.
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