July Virus Attacks, According to Google

[engine]

July Virus Attacks, [googleenterprise.blogspot.com]According to Google

In July, our Postini datacenters saw the biggest volume of email virus attacks so far in 2008, with a peak of nearly 10 million messages on July 24. One of the more prominent attacks in the month involved a spoofed UPS package-tracking link that was intended to lure recipients into clicking on it and downloading malware. Our zero-hour virus protection technology first started catching these emails on July 20.

[piatkow]

Now a really sophisticated virus write would get things sorted so that you only got one fake UPS message. Getting a dozen at once is a bit of a givaway.

[Lord Majestic]

I get lots of "Hallmark Postcard" ones - it's as if the damn spam bots are stuck on my email :(

[Dabrowski]

you only got one fake UPS message

LOL! I recieved about 8 of these too!

[engine]

The dupe is not the problem, its the payload that causes the unprotected the pain.

[piatkow]

But the dupe is what will prompt you to open the message and receive the payload.