Sorry, Microsoft and AOL have not merged yet, nor
has Bill Gates decided to share his fortune with folks
who forward such chain emails till date.
Michigan headquartered MicroWorld Technologies Inc.,
inventor of revolutionary concept in scanning Internet
traffic on real-time basis, urges email users receiving
such unwanted and often excessive Spam emails to:
1)Delete messages with obvious or strange looking
headers (often showing as a mixed up jumble of letters)
2)Not to reply to these emails, even if it says unsubscribe
as this is how they verify they've reached an active
email user
3)Not to buy anything they advertise or pass on chain
letters as that keeps them in business
4)Not to open attachments to emails that you are unsure
about
5)Keep their Content Security softwares updated.
Analysis in past has revealed that a small firm with
500 employees could be losing around £3,300
a month in lost productivity because of junk e-mails.
The cost doubles for a business with 1,000 staff,
rising to £32,771 for one with 5,000.
In one of the American surveys, email Spam is found
to be the No. 1 technology time waster. Apart from
pornography, it is found that the most common Spam
messages to reach consumer’s in-boxes are about
refinancing, credit counseling and sexual enhancement
products.
Those receiving such fake mails, must not forward
it to their friends and colleagues. Forwarding unsolicited
chain letters waste time and bandwidth. And many times
these fake emails are boosted with attractive attachments
which try to capture human mentality by encouraging
users to make them executed by demonstrating obscene
content or famous ongoing events links etc. and thus
prove fatal for the computer system.
In the beginning of this year, Kamasutra Worm payload
triggering alert had filled almost all news releases.
"16 January 2006 when we at MicroWorld Technologies
Inc. first reported this Worm with Obscene mail content,
it was great time fighting to resolve this threat
as almost all Content Security softwares get disabled
once the computer gets infected. We immediately reverse
engineered the activity and came up with minor change
in our Anti-Virus and
Anti-Spyware Toolkit Utility (MWAV 8.x) to withstand
the threat unlike providing a new patch", says
Aneesh Paliwal, Security Analyst at MicroWorld. With
more research results, predictions were released for
the payload of Kamasutra to be triggered with system
date as 3rd for the already infected computers, and
so it became a big picture, but fortunately the activity
of wiping of key files from once infected system on
3rd of the month was found almost null across the
globe. "The need of the time is to reverse engineer
and understand all possibilities and analyse all probabilities
once a new threat is identified and to co-relate its
activity with existing threats as the 3rd of the System
Date could have been 30th and 31st of the month also",
says Aneesh and it is a true fact that there were
some computers victim of being wiped away due to Kamasutra
on 3rd February including well protected software
firms in India.
So, never forward a Hoax mail which blackmail you
emotionally as " Make A Wish Foundation, has
agreed to donate 7 cents to cure baby suffering from
Cancer for every time this message is sent on",
simply delete it.
MicroWorld
MicroWorld (www.mwti.net
) are the developers of the world's first Real-Time
AntiVirus and Content Security software eScan
for desktops and servers. Its communication security
software, MailScan
is the first comprehensive e-mail scanner for your
SMTP/POP3 Mail Server.
MicroWorld Winsock Layer (MWL) is
the revolutionary technology underlying these products,
powering them to several certifications and awards
by some of the most prestigious testing bodies, notable
among them being Virus Bulletin, Checkmark, TUCOWS,
Red Hat Ready, and Novell Ready. Combining their powerful
scanner with MWL technology, MicroWorld solutions
provide a Real-Time Proactive security for your systems.
For network security of enterprises, eConceal Firewall
is the latest powerful offering from MicroWorld.
To learn more, kindly visit http://www.mwti.net.
