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Spammers are sending out messages with titles like CNN Breaking News and MSNBC Breaking News - apparently these install malware on computers. Here's the story: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/258557
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Julia,
Thanks for the heads up on this. I'll forward it to my mother who seems to want to click on every link ever sent to her.
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My husband forwarded me a message from the IT support dept. at his company - he doesn't forward these unless there's a serious concern so I take anything he sends seriously.
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I've been finding a bunch of these emails in my spam filter for the past several weeks. Thank God I didn't open any of them!
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Thanks for the info. It helps, as we can't catch everything and of course something from CNN or MSNBC sounds legit.

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Thanks for this, just passed it along in an email.
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Thanks for this, just passed it along in an email.

Good idea, I actually sent it to my clients the other day too. I think it is good to send this kind of info to clients from time to time. It shows that you are on top of things.
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