Virus Game Attachments, Or Whatever It Is

A Gmail screenshot showing an email urging you to "run with Flavor Flav"

Do these things have a name, and what do they typically do? Gmail is chronically bad at filtering them out (or perhaps they do filter out many but there’s just too much of them). They usually come with an image attached, and as you can see in this case, a SWF attachment.

[By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Virus Game Attachments, Or Whatever It Is | Comments]

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Date : 2010-08-19 05:11:25
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