Has anyone been noticing lately on their e-mail a lot of supposed greeting cards from a family member or friend or 'long lost HS buddy' that ends up being advertising:? I've been getting a lot of them. Is this a legal advertising tactic?
It's not. It's a virus spreading around the 'Net. Snopes.com has info on the subject. Part of the virus includes a variant on the Storm Trojan. It's a nasty thing. Delete them when you get them. I specifically told everyone I could think of not to send me any eCards for my birthday yesterday, because I already have my computer set to delete those files. And hell, I've got a Mac. I've just got years of PC virus parnoia behind me.
My dad just told me today that he's been getting a lot of e-cards lately, though he knew they were most likely a virus and has been deleting them.
It seems to come in discrete bursts. I'll get a bunch of ones where you have to click the link, and then click a second link on the resulting site to get infected. Then I got some that had the virus embedded (which was stripped out by my ISP), and now I'm getting external links again (which are a lot more british. My "mate" sent me an e-card? Jolly good, old chap).
i remember they were 'cool' briefly when they came out, but I really don't know anyone sending e-cards anymore, viruses aside...