Spammers Have Ways To Make You Click...

We've talked about it before over at our Block More Spam Site, spammers are becoming geniuses at getting you to open their messages.

Social engineering is the latest technique they use to create the urge to click through on their spam messages.

For example, today's attack on thousands of inboxes was a message that Michael Jackson had committed suicide - when in fact this was just a hoax to get you to click on these spam messages resulting in malicious code being downloaded to your PC.

Trouble is, you don't know what spam technique will be next. This one will catch hundreds of thousands unaware, and depending on the code installed on your computer, you could be made the unwilling accomplice in further spam attacks.

In many cases, these trojans overwrite your host files to prevent you from getting to popular virus detection sites, then register with a main host where other code is available or begin to use your PC as an unwitting mail server spewing out thousands more messages to others who go through the same cycle.

Other than a small performance hit - your PC will slow down a little, it is impossible to even know YOUR pc is being used this way, unless you deploy spam blocker software.

Get more information on what you can do to avoid becoming infected by the latest spam/virus combination - visit our Spam Blocker site now.

Jeff