I am seeing around a two dozen or more virus laden emails a day right now all with the same general subject lines such as:

“payment request from "Qualcomm" or “payment request from "Google"” or “Your Credit Balance is over its limit”

These all contain a backdoor Trojan in the attachment so again and again I remind everyone to not click those attachments you get in email. I like that “transaction inspector module”, they are always looking for something that will just make people click away, well DON’T!

When you leave messages on your e-mail server, you can choose from several options to delete your messages. To make your choice, you need to consider several factors about your e-mail usage, such as how long you want the messages to be accessible from multiple computers and the storage limits imposed by your e-mail server administrator. If you exceed your storage limit, you might be unable to receive new messages or might be charged additional fees.

Beware of variations of a new email Scam where a company will request a quote for various hardware products such as Hard Drives. Scammers are targeting smaller resellers and shops that may not be as “tech savvy” as they should be or not have the resources to fully verify the request is legit. Even if the offer comes with payment such as a Credit Card or Cashiers Check the odds are the check is fake or the Credit Card stolen.

Here is an example of such an email request:

Email short messages, reminders, phone numbers and other important stuff to any mobile phone that supports text (SMS) messaging. Send email Text messages to Alltel, Cingular/AT&T, Nextel, Sprint, T-Mobile, VoiceStream,Verizon, and Virgin Mobile.

We Have Hijakced Your Baby

Be aware of another UPS notification type email with a payload. This time it’s an attachment, Georgia.zip, with a subject line of “Journalists shot in Georgia” or variation of. I have seen a dozen alerts of these being blocked from one site alone in the past hour.