I've noticed an increase of the malware with the subject You have received a Halloween E-card!. Do be careful this Halloween or your computer might end up possessed.
Whilst I've only seen the email with the subject An old friend added you as a friend on facebook once, this is a reminder to be very careful with emails purporting to be from people you may know. Most of the time the aim is to trick you to install the software attached to the email. If a friend has added you to Facebook, then log on to Facebook where you will have received a notification, if in fact it is real.
These emails can be easily avoided using a pop mail account and OzEfilter. In the last two weeks I've received 53 emails which had malware attached, which wasn't detected by the commercial anti-virus software package. These emails would have been easily deleted by OzEfilter before ever reaching the computer.
Please take care with malware.
- Kelvin Eldridge
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