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A little help please...
A User claims she got this in email this morning...
"I received this message while reviewing my email this morning ( The safety settings on your computer is dangerously low. With the current settings, any web site you visit ( and any ad that is shown to you can automatically install to your computer. It is strongly recommended that you raise your security settings.) "
anyone seen this before?
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You need to find out if it was a legitimate e-mail. Find out first if the user knows the person who sent the e-mail. If so, have him contact that person to confirm that he/she actually sent it. It may have been a fake e-mail that spoofed someone's e-mail address.
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Just think about it: how could anyone know before they send that email that the safety settings on the recipient's computer are "dangerously low"?
It didn't have a link to some paying software to "fix the problem" by any chance, did it? ;)
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Originally posted here by Negative
Just think about it: how could anyone know before they send that email that the safety settings on the recipient's computer are "dangerously low"?
It didn't have a link to some paying software to "fix the problem" by any chance, did it? ;)
thats exaclty what i was thinking...
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Where was the mail from..check the authenticity of the mail...looks like an attempt at social engineering to me..'Security settings' hmmf
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Is the user computer literate?
I ask, because I have seen this in a popup before, but never an email.
Perhaps she was browsing the web or cheching her webmail when she got a popup of this message?
Just a thought.