[AccessD] It just goes to show ya

 Really scary I know...some of the stuff is getting pretty darn good.

 Almost got bit last year.  E-mail came in telling me I had a problem with
something, which by coincidence I had just done the previous day and it
looked legit.  Clicked without thinking and Trend saved my butt.  After the
blocked page message came up, it was only then that I realized I should not
be getting an e-mail like that. That was too close for comfort<g>

 And here I am the one telling everybody "Don't click on anything in an
e-mail" and absolutely know better then not to.

  Part of the problem is though, there are still people sending e-mails
(valid ones) with links in them (NY's Easy pass comes to mind).

Jim.


-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 07:47 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: [AccessD] It just goes to show ya

I got an email this morning - XYZ wants to be your friend on facebook.  I
don't know xyz, but I 
often go look to see if maybe I do know them out in a circle somehow.

I clicked on the link...  It *looked* just like those things from
Facebook...

You guessed it, it was a social engineering attempt to get me to a page to
do something bad to my 
computer.

I run firefox in DropMyRights sandbox AND I have a widget to prevent running
scripts in firefox 
which just saved my bacon.

It just goes to show though.  I *know* about this stuff, I am very careful
and I still got suckered. 
  Only my safeguards saved me.

-- 
John W. Colby
Colby Consulting

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it

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