Greeting card virus licensed to spread. If a computer user carelessly clicks an "I agree" button and downloads an infectious program, is that program a virus? That's the question raised by a sneaky new e-mail. [CNET News.com]
This particular virus is evil...it nearly nailed me, and I'm supposed to be an expert! It sends you to friendgreeting.com (DON'T GO HERE) or some similar domain. It prompts you to download some innoucous thing like a flash runtime, and if you agree, it sends an unsolicited email to a bunch of your Outlook Contacts. It installs itself as a Outlook AddIn and an Internet Explorer Listener. Adds a LOT of stuff to the registry. I was an idiot to even click "I agree" when it prompted me, and the only reason I didn't get nailed was that ZoneAlarm noticed something called "WinSrvc.exe" trying to get out...I may be slow, but I know EXACTLY what all 56 processes that are running on my Windows XP box are, and cleverly named it may be, this was a foreign process...
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