One Step Ahead

The latest banking scam making the rounds is an e-mail message which is supposed to be from Westpac, a long-time Olympics sponsor, talking about fund-raising for the Paralympics. But it's a scam, and it could infect your computer with a virus if you fall for it. You can read the full story here.

I've been talking about e-mail scams for a long time, and if you've been a regular reader, you probably won't have fallen for it. But "There's a sucker born every minute", as P.T. Barnum said, and I bet some people will get sucked in by it ...

To learn more, read The Common Sense Guide to PC Security.