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Recently several members of the campus community have fallen victim to a scam related to Wooster’s email services. Wooster’s online access for email is referred to as Scotmail, not webnews or webmail, and we are not currently updating our database of information. These messages are not legitimate. The spam message that many people have received comes from a fraudulent sender, not the Wooster IT department. It requests your username and password, country, state, and other personal information. Do not send your information in response to that email. If you have submitted your information by mistake, please change your password immediately at the following website: https://secureweb.wooster.edu/password

Avorax Company es una empresa privada radicada en Oregon, USA, que se dedica a la seguridad informática.  Esta empresa distribuye un programa gratuito, llamado Arovax Shield™, que combate al Malware que día a día trata de ingresar y atacar nuestros sistemas.

SecureMac reporta el descubrimiento de un troyano peligroso que afecta Mac OS X en sus versiones 10.4 y 10.5, el cuál permite un acceso completo al sustema.

Todas las personas que tienen conocimientos avanzados saben que ningún sistema operativo es seguro, también saben que Windows aparenta ser el sistema operativo más vulnerable pues históricamente los crackers pusieron más énfasis en crear virus para Windows que para otros sistemas operativos, pues estadísticamente afecta a más usuarios que en otros sistemas operativos.

I received a comment on my recent Firefox 3: Most Visited post the other day and it’s still sitting in the moderation queue as I wonder what to do with it. Most comments are easy to divide between spam and useful, but this one has caused me to stop and ponder.

It’s a link to a shared document over at Google Docs.

So now I have to wonder — is that a new virus / malware delivery mechanism? Or was the commenter honestly being helpful and linking me something he thought I’d want to see?

I’m probably not going to click the link, but I’ll always wonder…