I've been getting these for several months, along with a number of other ruses.

I know that I have forwarded a number of examples of interesting and new scams to you guys from time to time, and I'm sure I'm not alone. I just figured that you never mentioned them because they were so common that they weren't news.

It really shouldn't be anything surprising.

I first got those AGES ago. Why is anyone silly enough to open them?

So once you've got this malware on your computer what can you expect to see it do? Is it a spam-bot or does it delete files? What does the malware do?

Whenever I disinfect a client's computer of viruses et. al. they invariably ask me why people create viruses. I know that some people are getting rich but when people ask me about the details of the schemes to make money I have to plead ignorance. How exactly do people make money sending email asking if you would like to have some part of your body enlarged? How do the unscrupulous retailers get in touch with the spam-bot operators? How is it possible that the FBI fails to clamp down on these schemes if the bad guys have to use credit card service bureaus to get paid? It would seem to be trivial to track these things to their point of origin.

My clients want to know. Please someone write an article explaining this stuff.

BTW I'm Tux-Safe insofar as few viruses are written for Linux.

Use the Force Luke, use the Force...

And why aren't all these IT bods using decent spam filtering?

Alaskan Airlines, United, you name it, I've bought a ticket on it.

Apparently.

Windows needs to introduce the "double-double click". If you are in anyway a beginner on a PC, the standard double-click in the email client should be disabled.

Instead, when you double-click an attachment you should get an intermediate message:

"Do you really want to open this? Do you know who it's from? Do you know what it is? Do you think your penis is really that small?...." double-click again to continue...