Be on the alert for Malware showing up as a Christmas e-card

As usual, Christmas is an opportunity for the malware folks out there to try and penetrate your computers. Here’s a posting from Sophos about it.

Usual caveats apply. Don’t open any e-mails or e-cards if you don’t know who they cone from. Even then, be sure the hyperlink is what appears in the text. As they indicate in the posting, hover the mouse over the link (don’t click on it) and the real URL will appear. If it doesn’t match the text, it’s malware….

http://www.sophos.com/blogs/sophoslabs/?p=8039