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Trying to Scare You Into Clicking That Link
Posted 1:02 PM, February 23, 2012, by eamsel
I received this email today. According to the message, my computer is infected with some type of virus. But I'm not worried, because I know it can't be true: I use Sophos anti-virus on all of my computers. I, like you, can get a free copy of Sophos from the ITS website (https://itservices.stanford.edu/service/ess/pc/docs/sophos), and I can install it on all of the computers that I use for work (both at work and at home). It's a great tool, and using anti-virus helps make sure that you don't need to worry about viruses and malware, and of course, emails that try to scare you into thinking that your computer is infected...
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Subject:
[irt-security] Your mailbox has been detected of DGXT Virus!
From:
"Mail Admin"
Date:
Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:45:54 +0300
To:
undisclosed-recipients:;
Our WebMail automated systems scan shows that your mailbox is been infected by some suspicious DGXT Virus, the DGXT Virus is causing conflict between some of our web users.Please to stop this action you will have to Click the Url to remove and revalidate your mailbox.
Click or copy http://www.ostisb.org/secure/update/acc.htm to remove threat.
Note that none of your files will be removed or lost during this operation.
Thank you,
Technical Helpdesk Service.
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