Spam Wars This Summer

Coming soon to a computer near you is all the spam, viruses, and Trojan-spawned malware that you’d ever want to meet.

The bad geeks couldn’t even spare the already tarnished memory of
pop superstar Michael Jackson within days of his tragic demise. They
had to create a worm piggybacking in an email that lured the
unsuspecting into a treacherous Moonwalk when opened. The bad geeks
have no shame.

The e-mail in question with the innocuous-sounding subject line
“Remembering Michael Jackson” contained a corrupted zip file spread by
USB memory sticks. Claiming to originate from sarah@michaeljackson.com,
its wormy zip was supposed to contain secret songs and photos of the
dead but bigger-than-life legend, but instead it was primed to infect
your hard drive, and any others that you contacted with the efficiency
of a Ponzi scheme.

Michael Jackson is just the tip of the gravestone. While spyware is
on the wane, the new computer mal-boy of choice for evil geeks is the
deceptive Trojans, no nicer now than they were in the time of Troy when
Helen was still around. A Trojan used to be something else, an article
worn that offered protection. Those safeguards are gone, only to be
replaced by fake antivirus protections, counterfeit creations like MDW.

What to do? Where do you go to eradicate the lying software once
it’s mistakenly loaded onto your ‘puter? An unlikely destination is the
independent repair shop, the same place where you went to fix your
iPod, Blackberry so cheaply and quickly you can take your notebook or
your laptop. Increasingly as a sign of the times, these convenient
places are becoming the ‘in’ place to find out what condition your
condition is in – at least when it comes to infiltrators messing up
your hard drive because some bad geek wants to have a little malicious
fun at your expense. Don’t get mad, get even. Get rid of that MDW
before it has a chance to cause too much hullaballoo.

Jeff Gasner is with CPR-Cell Phone repair. The leader in Cell Phone
Repair and iPod repair offering cell phone repair services nationwide.
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