Comments on: Trojan Postcard Targets Windows Users http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/trojan-postcard-targets-windows-users/ Internet Safety, Windows Updates, Internet News, and More Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:59:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: martinelli http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/trojan-postcard-targets-windows-users/#comment-2116 martinelli Sun, 03 Jul 2005 19:15:04 +0000 /?p=795#comment-2116 <quote>If you receive an unexpected postcard and you really just can’t bear to delete it without checking first, don’t click on the link, but manually type in the purported address of the alleged postcard company, and see what you can see.</quote> How exactly does that help if the linked page on the website is using an internet explorer flaw to allow download of the trojan? Aren't you going to get it anyway? It is good advice for going to your bank or Paypal website where you might be misdirected, but the way these "Postcard Spyware" things work, they are already sending you to the real website. If in doubt, DON'T GO TO THE WEBSITE PERIOD!!!! If you receive an unexpected postcard and you really just can’t bear to delete it without checking first, don’t click on the link, but manually type in the purported address of the alleged postcard company, and see what you can see.

How exactly does that help if the linked page on the website is using an internet explorer flaw to allow download of the trojan? Aren’t you going to get it anyway?

It is good advice for going to your bank or Paypal website where you might be misdirected, but the way these “Postcard Spyware” things work, they are already sending you to the real website.

If in doubt, DON’T GO TO THE WEBSITE PERIOD!!!!

]]> By: Russell W. Coover http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/trojan-postcard-targets-windows-users/#comment-2113 Russell W. Coover Sat, 02 Jul 2005 20:11:09 +0000 /?p=795#comment-2113 I usually get 3 or 4 "cards" a year. Those I've gotten in the past have been legitimate. In order to identify these "Trojan" laden links, I would like to know what sort of message do these convey? Any "clues" would be very helpful. I usually get 3 or 4 “cards” a year. Those I’ve gotten in the past have been legitimate. In order to identify these “Trojan” laden links, I would like to know what sort of message do these convey? Any “clues” would be very helpful.

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