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YoKenny

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HO HO HO Santa has a virus for you
« on: November 27, 2009, 01:08:57 PM »
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HO HO HO Santa has a virus for you

This morning while triaging customer malware and spam samples I saw a variation on the typical click-the-link and get malware spam.

This one was Christmas themed, normally we would expect Thanksgiving themed spam before the Christmas glut.   
http://www.sophos.com/blogs/sophoslabs/?p=7584
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Re: HO HO HO Santa has a virus for you
« Reply #1 on: November 27, 2009, 04:32:56 PM »
Ho Ho Ho, no change there then, I seem to remember this from before not to mention another occasion and just another topic to try and full the unwary.
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Re: HO HO HO Santa has a virus for you
« Reply #2 on: November 27, 2009, 05:01:13 PM »
It seems attractive!
Who doesn't want to get something for free?
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