Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Spammers phish iPhone fans

As Apple's newest gadget starts selling in U.S. stores, <A HREF="http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6194485.html?tag=nl.e550">spammers are exploiting the surrounding product craze</A> by sending emails that try to dupe recipients into thinking that they have won an iPhone of their own.

Web-filtering specialist Secure Computing is warning users not to fall for the socially engineered emails that contain a link which, if clicked on, will attempt to connect to a Web site and install malicious software designed to take control of the victim's computer.

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