Looks like this “Fake” email is generated from Russia. The attachment is a ZIP folder named: Invitation_Card_83839.zip
Do not open it, it contains a trojan!!! ESET AV shows it as; ZIP » Invitation_Card.exe - a variant of Win32/Kryptik.PIT trojan. Cheers, Ronni On 23/06/2011, at 8:20 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: > This is just the sort of thing to be careful of, and one which plagues the > Windows world on a daily basis. No doubt others on this list have received > this message as well. I have deliberately removed the attachment for the > purposes of posting of course, but opening that "invitation card" could spell > disaster on a Windows computer. It is almost certainly malware. Now that we > are seeing threats such as MacDefender beginning to appear, the time for > complacency is over. > > Despite the lack of malware on the Mac platform, opening attachments such as > this is always unwise, and good security is more a question of discipline > than anything else. > > Remember, the best anti-virus software in the world cannot protect you from > your own behaviour. Just delete messages like this, and curb your curiosity. > > If you want to see something really interesting, click and drag over the area > of the message between "appreciate it." and <attachment deleted>. Just a > simple example of how nasties can be hidden in messages without you realising > it. > > > ------------------------------------------ > Good afternoon. > > McDonalds invites you to The Free Supper Day which will take place on 28 > June, 2011, in every cafe of ours. > > Free Day’s menu! > - Filet-O-Fish > - Chicken McNuggets > - Side Salad > - Apple Dippers > - McCafe Strawberry Banana Smoothie > > Print the invitation card attached to the letter and show it at the cash desk > of any of our restaurants. > > Every manager will gladly take your card and issue you a tasty dish of Free > Day. > And remember! Free Day is whole five free dishes! > > Thank you for your credence. > We really appreciate it. > > > > > > > Without a tear, without a groan, She laid it near a mighty stone, Which some > rude swain had haply cast Thither in sport, long ages past, And Time with > mosses had oerlaid, And fenced with many a tall grassblade, And all about bid > roses bloom And violets shed their soft perfume.There, in its cool and quiet > bed, She set her burden down and fled: Nor flung, all eager to escape, One > glance upon the perfect shape That lay, still warm and fresh and fair, But > motionless and soundless there. No human eye had markd her pass Across the > linden-shadowd grass Ere yet the minster clock chimed seve./+n: Only the > innocent birds of heaven - The magpie, and the rook whose nest Swings as the > elmtree waves his crest - And the lithe cricket, and the hoar And huge-limbd > hound that guards the door, Lookd on when, as a summer wind That, passing, > leaves no trace behind, All unapparelld, barefoot all, She ran to that old > ruind wall, To leave upon the chill dank earth (Fo r ah! > > > <Attachment deleted> > > ------------------------------------------ > > Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services > FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer > Perth, Western Australia > Phone (618) 9332 6482 Mob 0403 046 948 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
