Smut-ladened spam disguises WoW Trojan campaign A malicious spam campaign that attempts to harvest online game passwords under the guise of messages containing smutty photos is doing the rounds. The tainted emails have subject line such as "Do you like to find a girlfriend like me?", and an attached archive file called "my photos.rar". The archive contains photos of young …
"A surprising amount of malware is designed to steal registration keys, passwords and data from players of computer games," said a consultant at Sophos.
The only real surprising part of this article to me is that there are still people with access to the internet that actually open and read emails with subjects like "Do you like to find a girlfriend like me?" instead of doing the logical thing of deleting them outright.
Bearing in mind that only a confirmed cretin would do anything with such unsolicited mail but delete it, and that such an attack vector is now as old as the hills, the epiphany is this - there's no way to protect folk from themselves, and in order to ensure that evolution takes its course, there should be no attempt to protect such loons.
Newsflash for the hard of thinking - there's no free porn/trunkbox full of dollars/girlfriend/boyfriend/delete as applicable. Switch off your computer and step away, you are officially too dense to be on the interwebz....
/end rant
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