my favorite was the email from microsoft security (?) that said something about you having to install the atached update. that was just a waist of time since I don't open anything from microsoft anyways. and I didn't know there was such thing as microsoft security. On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 08:30:34PM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Yep, before when I typed the name of the file into google, I didn't get > anything. but I found info on it when I typed in "paypal hoax" just now. > Funny, I laughed when I saw an ebay hoax like this a few days ago; I guess > I reacted with more attention to this one because of the problems I'd had > with the user agreement and because I was thinking about the accessibility > problems I've had with shopping websites recently and my first thought was > "Oh No!" But this was obviously totally suspect. > When the hoaxes and viruses masqueraded as warnings about windows > viruses, it was pretty obvious; now they're getting cleverer, or at least a > lot more diverse, with the subject lines. I guess the rule is: > never execute any kind of attachment or hit on any url within an email > unless you have reason to be really sure about it. > anyway, I should have known better than to give this one a second > glance--sorry about that! > > > -- > Cheryl > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk?
