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Following on from posting spams and scams aimed at people publishing their email addresses on uk.finance -

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- here's one aimed at the Halifax - Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 11:58:39 -0500 To: Subject: Halifax Security Update Notification From: Halifax Security Department services-at-security.halifax.co.uk

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Dear Valued HalifaxÂ(R) Customer,

Due to concerns for the safety and integrity of your Halifax account we have issued this warning message.

It has come to our attention that your HalifaxÂ(R) account information needs to be updated as part of our continuing commitment to protect your account and to reduce the instance of fraud on our website. If you could please take 5-10 minutes out of your online experience and update your personal records you will not run into any future problems with the online service.

However, failure to update your records will result in account suspension. Please update your information via our Secure Server stated below.

Once you have updated your account records your Halifax account service will not be interrupted and will continue as normal.

To update your HalifaxÂ(R) records click on the following link:

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Thank You.

HalifaxÂ(R) Security Team

Accounts Management As outlined in our User Agreement, HalifaxÂ(R) will periodically send you information about site changes and enhancements.

Visit our Privacy Policy and User Agreement if you have any questions.

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which unusually appears to be in the US -

network:IP-Network-Block:75.125.21.80 - 75.125.21.95 network:Organization-Name:purgehosting network:Organization-City:Turlock network:Organization-State:CA network:Organization-Zip:95382 network:Organization-Country:US

Reply to
Daytona
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so what? I must get several of these a week.Why pick one out?

Reply to
Tumbleweed

I get about 1 spam month and it's been a long time since I received a phish, but then again the address was seeded once in June 2006, so perhaps that's the difference.

Daytona

Reply to
Daytona

Oooh! Tumbleweed, aren't you a clever boy.

You post to this NG to tells us you have inadequate virus protection on your PC.

My, how I look up to you.

Dave F.

Reply to
Dave F.

I've found that installing McAfee SiteAdvisor intercepts the page (As in this case) if I inadvertently click on a dodgy link:

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It's free & v. highly rated.

Dave F.

Reply to
Dave F.

since when did a virus checker on your PC stop spam entering your mailbox on someone else's server?

tim

Reply to
tim (not at home)

I suppose I meant spam. One of the ones I use come as a complete bundle.

I think you know what I meant.

Did you mean *from* someone else's server?

Dave F.

Reply to
Dave F.

Easier just to delete these emails without even opening them. In fact I'm rather astonished anyone with a clue does.

Reply to
Yellow

I did say inadvertently.

Reply to
Dave F.

Yellow wrote: ...

I always look. And put the mail relay that sent it into a block list. And sometimes forward to the bank's phisheries protection.

(But I should add that the mailer I use, Pegasus, has it's own secure html renderer, and warns about weird links; so it's pretty safe to do this.)

BTW the subject is rather misleading :-)

Reply to
Mike Scott

Its more the case your post shows you dont have a clue about what virus protection does.

you'd be better occupied looking up 'PC virus' in a dictionary.

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Reply to
Tumbleweed

I get my spam filtered out, you don't. .

Reply to
Dave F.

So do I..... just because I said that I get several a week doesnt mean that they arent filtered out* :-)

  • I do of course occasionally look at my junk mail folder to check for false positives which is how I know I get them, before you ask.
Reply to
Tumbleweed

No

Letting in a virus might be dangerous, letting in spam is just time wasting.

No. My mail is collected on a server in someone else building. By the time it is downloaded to my machine it has already gone pase the spam checking process (but is yet to reach MY virus checking process).

tim

Reply to
tim.....

I like to keep an eye on where they are hosted. Hotmail automatically treated the email as 'unsafe' so opening it does no harm. I'm confident of my firewall, virus and spyware detection (AVG, Spybot & AdAware) so even so I don't believe accessing the website would do me any harm, any more than accessing any other website.

Daytona

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Daytona

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