Dorset
The Voice Of Reason
Founding Member
I have just received an email that looked totally kosher, with an Avast Virus Free Logo and link to the Avast site. The email said it was an Office365 account invoice but the attachment actually contains Locky ransomware and will fuck you over big time if you run any of the bollocks inside it. I
All these certificates and logos sitting at the foot of emails are totally fucking useless. It is so simple to just add them to any email to make it look like the contents are safe.
This thread is virus free, it must be because it says so at the bottom.
Virus-free www.avast.com
That image is served by the actual code in the dodgy email, the link not so much, in the email it is a real link to Avast, the one above is not, I added that, do you feel lucky? Click it then - or are you a pussy?
Stay safe kiddies, don't trust them there logos and badges, because those crook geezers are naughty and they might not be real!
All these certificates and logos sitting at the foot of emails are totally fucking useless. It is so simple to just add them to any email to make it look like the contents are safe.
This thread is virus free, it must be because it says so at the bottom.
That image is served by the actual code in the dodgy email, the link not so much, in the email it is a real link to Avast, the one above is not, I added that, do you feel lucky? Click it then - or are you a pussy?
Stay safe kiddies, don't trust them there logos and badges, because those crook geezers are naughty and they might not be real!
