Sunday, April 02, 2006

email warning

News item on BBC site.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4864072.stm

Or if you don't want to click on it at the moment Google BBC news and go to the technology leader page and read the article. People are sending out e mails with a fake BBC address that will take you to a malicious site which will install a piece of software on your computer if you use IE.

The BBC news site address always starts with

http://news.bbc.co.uk

and any individual news item starts with

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi

Bit aggravating that Microsoft are waiting til April 11th to supply patches for this problem. The article says that two other firms have already developed and are supplying patches.