Law Students

The entire firm received the following email from our head IT guy yesterday, subject line beginning "Please read immediately":

A new virus is going around today that looks like a subpoena from the US Courts. The subpoena email has a link that, when clicked, installs a virus on your computer. Please follow this link to see an example of the fake subpoena.
http://www.casd.uscourts.gov/index.php?page=home

I spent almost .1 debating whether to follow the link and then emailed a colleague to ask if I was paranoid (in keeping with yesterday's theme) for being afraid to click on the link. He said no, which instantly made me feel better, and went on to describe tales of disgruntled IT employees who, as a final diabolical act before quitting their jobs, sent out emails like the one above - with a virus, of course.

Whew. Good thing I didn't fall for that one. I remain ever vigilant, and I recommend you do the same.

Full post as published by Just Playin on April 15, 2008 (boomark / email).