Almost every single day I tend to get an email from a great friend of mine.. who is sending me a virus.. every day.
I feel like I am running in circles with some people, they just don’t get the hint that every single day they are sending out malicious software that is encased in some sort of video or picture file. I tell them all the time and warn them that they are doing it, but of course they say “No way! It worked totally fine for me!” Of course it did, that’s exactly what it was meant to do, work totally fine and make you not even notice that you are infected by something that will probably get your identity stolen in the next few weeks.
It’s ironic when that person then calls me up a few days after I warn them, wondering what all these pop ups are doing all over their computer, why there are random advertisements for porn on their desktops that their children and wives are asking questions about, and what in the world “MyWay Web Search” is, and why it keeps showing up in their Add/Remove Programs without them ever adding the program.
These type of emails are very annoying, especially when the user sending them is absolutely sure that it doesn’t have any sort of malicious software attached to it. I suggest you take matters into your own hands and get some decent software that can track these type of things, because you probably shouldn’t trust the person that is sending them to you, unless you know for sure that the person who is sending you these files isn’t a complete moron.. ahem.
The worst kind of spam, is the kind you get from people who have no idea that they are sending it, and that they have a virus or some sort of spyware that they got from someone else who sent them a totally rare video of some sort of extremely surprised prairie dog in a Windows Media format. The type of spam that you get that wants you to buy something from Korea because it’s only about 56,179 Korean Won. Which is apparently a great deal.. or something.
Those type of links are just a scam, they are worse than spam because you really don’t know what you are getting, and for the most part it is probably going to be something that isn’t going to be worth the $50 you just paid for it, it will probably fall apart or maybe even burn your house down.
The moral of this story is that you really have to keep your friends close to you and make sure they know what is going on with their computer. If they don’t believe you, then you should probably send them an email saying “Look Fred, read this blog post it’s really important,” then you need to link them here. They will then realize that “Oh.. crap.. I’m ‘that guy’”. So you need to try to keep away from the emails from the friends that have those awesome videos that everyone has already seen, because really.. who cares about a prairie dog anyways?
