“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” - Winston Churchill
Sunday, March 22nd, 2009It’s always easier for people to believe a big news article mentioning the next big hack or the next exploit than for people to actually take the time to understand what is going on.
I’ve been doing this for close to 18 years now and it really irritates me when someone sends me an E-mail that talks about a new phishing scam warning, a supposedly legitimate security alert coming from his best buddy or a chain letter asking for help with someone in Siberia and that the person who sent me the original email thinks that he or she is the first one in the world to send me this.
It would take that person 5-10 minutes maximum to go on the web and look on any search engine or myth buster site to see if there is any truth to this, it would save some very valuable electrons and it would make everyone on his or her mailing list a lot safer.
I’ve seen friends, family members and co-workers get infected because they clicked on links they were not suppose to, just because it came from a trusted source.
My advice to everyone out there that every received it, please take that 5 minutes and look it up!
I searched for a good 30 seconds on Google and found numerous site that helps decipher the truth from the hoaxes, one of the good one out there, VMyth: http://vmyths.com/