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Title: DHL Tracking Number emails contain malware
Post by: Clive on March 23, 2009, 20:49

Sophos experts are seeing a widespread malicious spam campaign posing as emails from DHL about a failed delivery. Clicking on the attached file could infect your computer with a backdoor Trojan horse, putting your PC in the hands of remote hackers. Learn more about the threat, and what to look out for, in this advisory from Sophos.

http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2009/03/23/dhl

Title: Re: DHL Tracking Number emails contain malware
Post by: Simon on March 23, 2009, 21:36

I have NEVER had an email from a courier.  Half the time, they can't even be arsed to put a card through the door!

Title: Re: DHL Tracking Number emails contain malware
Post by: Clive on March 24, 2009, 08:21

I've received quite a few of those DHL e-mails in recent weeks.  But since I wasn't expecting them I treated them as spam.