With my 20th year reunion coming up this summer it is pretty pertinent that I pass this information along to my friends, enemies and classmates that are of the same age and possibly using classmates or other large network that is being targeted.
In the past couple months there has been phishing campaigns against Classmates.com and many others. Emails are being received with information about class reunions containing links to fake Classmates.com websites across the Internet. The imposter web sites have video malware (EXE file) designed to HiJack your computer using Trojans and key loggers.
It is reported that these video exploit files will automatically try to download onto your PC without you clicking them. Make sure you have virus scanner and other tools running. Most of what I have read involves a resident scanner [runtime / fulltime] and then an on demand one for attacks, on the spot email scans and deep registry scans. Before you go and buy and products talk to me and I can give you recommendations that lead to combinations that are all free and work very well. You will find that most of the high end tech personal in security use all free products. There is a huge world of anti-malware out there too incase you are already infected.
WARNING: Fake Classmates Websites hosting malicious content listed here:
List of: Phishing emails pointing to fake Classmates.com website featuring malware | Malware Database
Additional concepts that are vital to protecting yourself from email nastiness:
http://www.templejc.edu/student_info/CompResource/Helpdesk/email_safety.html
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