Reply to post: Re: Auntie Virus Software

UK, US hospital computers are down, early unofficial diagnosis is a suspected outbreak of Ryuk ransomware

Xalran
Devil

Re: Auntie Virus Software

Luser education is definitevely in order here.

If you don't expect a DHL/Fed-Ex/Chronopost/DpD or whatever, receiving an email from any of them should be an automatic "Oh it's a phishing attempt, report it to IT" in the mind of the Lusers.

If deliveries are expected, the Lusers should know that none of the delivery companies sends attachements, just links to their websites ( with or without the shipping information ), so once more seeing such a mail with an attachment should raise all the warning bells.

I receive stuff on a regular basis ( both professionally and as an individual ) and detecting the phishing attempts are so easy that I could do it while sleeping out a drunken stupor. ( obviously after an indecent amount of pub time )

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