Font conference. ‘Nuff said.

The lego boys hanging out at Diliman. They hang out at Gaerlan St. too. Wanna hang out with them for a bit? Click HERE.

Hello!

You have recieved a Hallmark E-Card from your friend.

To see it, check the attachment.

There’s something special about that E-Card feeling. We invite you to make a friend’s day and send one.

Hope to see you soon,
Your friends at Hallmark

Your privacy is our priority. Click the “Privacy and Security” link at the bottom of this E-mail to view our policy.

Hallmark.com | Privacy & Security | Customer Service | Store Locator

And since it was my birthday I thought “how nice, someone remembered!” Then I saw the attachment: postcard.zip.

Hallmark does not zip its ecards, hardly any postcard service does. They have a pickup link, or immediately show the ecard as an embedded image. As this was in my Yahoo account I clicked on the Scan before download link and true enough, Yahoo’s Norton Antivirus scanner detected a virus in the file.

Hallmark themselves know that this and has released useful information on their site on how to combat this email. The first versions of this email came out in 2007 and has been reported to be still ciruclating around May of this year.

The good thing about email services like Yahoo is that they have built-in antivirus checking, so that the chances of your downloading malware is almost nil. However, if you get it in your email client and your antivirus program (gasp! you don’t have one??!) is not up to date, you may be in for a heap of trouble.