Recently, Tim of BeThumbed PayPal account was hacked because of filling up a fake form which was purportedly sent by a Paypal staff. I’ve also received a similar e-mail, but I just ignored it. Good thing I was busy blogging at that time that I totally forgot about the e-mail. I also logged in directly to their website to read if similar announcement appeared in their “What’s New” section.
Paypal had been particular in securing their merchants’ accounts. They provided tips on how to protect your account.
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Here’s another one of those ‘phishing’ e-mail scams that should aware internet users, especially e-Gold members. Last week, I received an e-mail from the “account robot” of e-Gold telling me to update my account information because it was ‘outdated.’
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As celebration for their 10-year anniversary, Yahoo! Mail will offer unlimited mail storage capacity starting on May 2007 as announced on Tuesday.
The free version of Yahoo! Mail (basic), which is used by majority of users, offers only 1GB of storage and limited features such as the limited 10MB attachments. You need to upgrade to Yahoo! Mail plus to get more features you want including a “virtually unlimited” 2GB mail storage capacity and larger attachments.
Yahoo! Mail used to be the “giant” in mail industry but when Google started Gmail, millions have converted to it as their primary e-mail provider. This was due to the larger storage capacity – 2GB – and several other great features.
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Today, I have received a separate e-mails with viruses attached from two unknown sources.
The first one (from serv@logoluso.com) has this content:
Mail server report.
Our firewall determined the e-mails containing worm copies are being
sent from your computer.
Nowadays it happens from many computers, because this is a new virus
type (Network Worms).
Using the new bug in the Windows, these viruses infect the computer
unnoticeably.
After the penetrating into the computer the virus harvests all the
e-mail addresses and sends the copies of itself to these e-mail
addresses
Please install updates for worm elimination and your computer
restoring.
Best regards,
Customers support service
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Sure, LimeWire and other P2P File Sharing programs let you download hundreds of songs and applications but they also bring risk to your computer and files. You can also download a lot of malicious files and programs such as viruses and spywares along with these downloads.
To avoid downloading these hazards, I have simple tips for you:
1. Avoid downloading archived files as much as possible. It may contain bundled viruses in it.
2. If you are downloading music, a file smaller than the average MP3 files which is 3MB arouses suspicion, so as much as possible never download it.
3. Try downloading the files which comes from many sources because there is a greater chance that you are not downloading a virus.
4. With my over a year of experience with LimeWire, I have noticed that a file size of 871 kb is always a virus.
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