honest message or "phishing" from Russia?

[William Ryan]

I was in fact expecting a greetings message from Russia, so summoned up 
my courage and tried it - and caught a nasty new Trojan which got past 
several layers of defence. The usual security advice applies - if it the 
sender is not known to you, is unexpected or anonymous, best delete it. 
At worst you lose a 'Hi there' message.
Will

Rebecca Jane Stanton wrote:
> Postcard.ru is a perfectly legitimate free electronic-greetings-card 
> service not unlike the one at Amazon.  I use it all the time.  That 
> said, as Prof. Hauge suggests, it's always a good idea to check, 
> before clicking, that the URL really points whither it appears to be 
> pointing.
>
> Regards,
> RJS
>
> Kjetil Rå Hauge wrote:
>
>>> My "spam filter' flagged the "postcard" (?) attached below.  I have 
>>> NOT clicked the blue attachment or the address b/c I fear it may 
>>> come from some "zhulik."
>>
>>
>> Being a Macintosh user, I fearlessly clicked the URL, after first 
>> checking the source code of the message to make sure tnat another URL 
>> was not hiding behind it. It lead me to a "page not found"-page, and 
>> from there automatically to the home page of postcard.ru, which seems 
>> to be in the business that its name indicates.
>
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