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happy 4th of July...or as I call it Wednesday

While it sure is nice to have a day off in the middle of the week, I'm afraid my celebrating is limited to housework mostly.

Be on the look out for a new trend in nasty spam/virus emails. There's a whole list of bullshit subjects that sound like this:

Your Nations Birtday
Forth of July Party
God Bless America
Celebrate your nation
Independence Day Party
Happy Fourth of July
American Pride, On The 4th
America the beautiful
America's B-Day

They pretend they are an ecard from somebody, but they use generic and obviously fake identifiers such as "friend" or "school mate"....who the fuck says school mate? Anyways, the link is always an IP address with some encoded hex. Don't even click on the link, aside from the nasty "ecard.exe" it tries t get you to download, it uses 3 different exploits to screw you from the get go.

if your technical, here's a good write up of it here.

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