Hackers disguise malware as emailed docs from smart printers Hackers have developed a new ruse designed to trick recipients into opening malicious email messages that come loaded with malware. The trick involves sending emails that pose as scanned documents from office printers or scanners, forwarded by a work colleague. The unlikely source of attack is liable to fool many users, net …
"Paul Wood, Senior Intelligence Analyst, Symantec.cloud (formerly MessageLabs)."
I use these guys for my e-mail filtering. They boast a 100% virus detection guarantee in accordance with a service level agreement, meaning I don't have to pay when they screw up. Yet they pull doom and gloom statements like this. Certainly their flagship Skeptic system can catch fake office documents just like it catches fake anything-else. And it has; I haven't seen an e-mail virus sent to my domain since I subscribed.
Guys, are you saying your own service can't save us?
Mind you, they also said the internet was going to be doomed in 2008:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/09/24/internet_will_become_unusable_by/
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