Has anyone been getting fake MSNBC and CNN email alerts?

[terrya]

I have. The past couple of days.

Apparently, they're viruses. Or so I read.

[hobbit709]

1. Getting them, don't know about the virus part

My AVG hasn't been alerting me so I kinda doubt it. But unsolicited email goes into my junk folder immediately and I NEVER open anything suspicious.

[commander bunnypants]

2. yep

CB

[madinmaryland]

3. I got two last night. Deleted them without opening.

[Richardo]

4. Our IT people say to delete them without reading ...

...virus-laden.

[qb]

5. I've been getting CNN ones... I hate CNN so I just deleted without looking.

I also got a notice from myspace that a 23-year-old woman wants to be my friend. Hah! I saw right through that one and deleted her ass!

[gmoney]

6. Yeah, those and the outlandish "breaking news stories"

[MorningGlow]

7. Yes, loads

Firefox keeps labeling them with "Firefox thinks this is a scam"...and yet no matter how many times I label them as junk, they never automatically go into my trash folder. They're clogging up my inbox. :(

[MrCoffee]

8. Here's an article from msnbc about it

http://redtape.msnbc.com/2008/08/msnbc-cnn-hit-b.html

[Orsino]

10. Misleading headline.

The spammers are not "targeting" MSNBC or CNN.

[Orsino]

9. Several.

Thunderbird has not been very good at learning to recognize and trash them, either; only some are getting filtered, though I'm careful to mark them all as junk. The mails contain what seem to be genuine links to CNN and MSNBC, but I've taken no chances. Other links in the mails definitely go elsewhere.

I don't subscribe to e-mail alerts from either network, so I can't guess how well these messages are disguised.

[Turbineguy]

11. The link will

take you to a server in Amsterdam. There's probably better places to go in Amsterdam.

[Dogtown]

12. More in GD (link)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3795257

[Heidi]

13. Tons. They're diverted to my spam folder.

Hey, you! :hug:

:loveya:

[terrya]

17. Good to know!

Hey, you. :-)

:hug:

:loveya:

[ghostsofgiants]

14. Yeah, they've been showing up in my Gmail spam folder.

[Guava Jelly]

15. I've been getting them like crazy

Delete,delete....

[Ava]

16. i get cnn ones

they are obviously spam though. i've never understood how people could fall for the email scams and viruses since they tend to be obvious.

[sentelle]

18. The emails themselves

Are not.
The sites they link to will attempt to place a trojaned version of Flash on your PC.
Thats where the virus is.