Holiday e-Cards or e-Greetings Infecting Many Users with Malware

This holiday season cyber crooks are once again sending out e-cards or e-greetings infecting many computer users with malware via fake Adobe Flash Player downloads.

It is still not too late to get an e-Greeting card in your email for this holiday season. Lately reports have come in from several security researchers in regards to holiday e-greeting cards containing malware. Many of them may have been sent through email as spam messages or even sites that were created to trick users into downloading malware.

Remember the trick that hackers used to spread malware through fake adobe flash downloads? It is back again! Cyber crooks are using certain sites to display messages that a computer user must download an Adobe Flash player update or installation in order to display a new e-Greeting card.

During this holiday season everyone wants to the gift that is due to them even if it means downloading the latest Adobe Flash Player. But once again the Flash Player update offered by cyber cooks is not legitimate, it is actually malware that can potentially harm your computer or even worse, steal your personal information.

You should never download or install Adobe Flash Player from any other site other than Adobe.com. According to Symantec, some of the fake e-card domains used to spam computer users are listed as follows:

(do not visit)itsfatherchristmas.com
(do not visit)hbestchristmascard.com
(do not visit)whitewhitechristmas.com
(do not visit)christmaslightsnow.com
(do not visit)freechristmasworld.com

DO NOT visit any of the above sites! If you notice that you are redirected to any of them then you must discontinue use of it immediately. Most legitimate e-card or e-greeting card vendors will include a code within their message that you verify on their website. If you suspect that an e-card or e-greeting is not legitimate or has embedded links then it is best to avoid going any further with it. If it is important enough then the sender will resend it to you or contact you asking the reason for not opening their message. It is always better to be safe than sorry.