[Vision2020] Another E-mail scam/Adobe Flashplayer

[Paul Rumelhart]

I haven't seen this one, but it sounds legit.  The user is tricked into 
downloading what they think is the latest copy of Flash, a task which 
they've probably performed before, and then their normal Flash comes up 
and they don't get suspicious.  Meanwhile, they've just given a 
keylogger program the rights to run on the system as a normal user, 
which includes being able to capture keystrokes and to send the log to 
someone on the internet.  No magic needed.

A nice bit of social engineering, really.

Paul

donald edwards wrote:
> Hello, was just wondering if anyone else has received an e-mail like 
> this one below and if the more computer savvy on the list can 
> determine if this is just the  B.S. scare tactic that I think it is 
> but too new for Snopes.com? 
>  
> Thanks, Don
>  
> Hey, our office recvd this message from a reliable source, just wanted 
> to share with you all.  See text below.
>  
>
> At least one email as described below has gotten through the State’s 
> email filters today and to a state employee’s computer.  Please delete 
> this dangerous e-mail – both at work and at home. 
>
> Yesterday's election acceptance speech by President-Elect Obama is 
> already being used by cyber criminals to commit fraud.  The spam 
>  email with supposed links to the speech points to five separate 
> website domains, each registered yesterday in China.  Visiting any of 
> the websites requires the user to install an "Adobe Flash Player" in 
> order to watch the speech.  The program offered however is actually a 
> "keystroke logger".  Installing it will cause all userids and 
> passwords, whether for online banking, online stores, email, or even 
> chat programs, to be sent to the criminals computer.  Other malicious 
> software may be loaded as this scam email continues to propagate.
>
> Once again, if you receive this or any spam delete it immediately and* 
> do not* forward to the Helpdesk.
>
> IT Security
>
>
>
>
> > From: vision2020-request at moscow.com
> > Subject: Vision2020 Digest, Vol 29, Issue 70
> > To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> > Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 16:48:11 -0800
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> > 1. Re: (no subject) (Tom Hansen)
> > 2. Re: Yay! Sali Defeated! Was: UnofficialIdaho Election Results
> > (Tom Hansen)
> > 3. MPC lays off another 210 employees, effective 5 Nov 2008
> > (Kenneth Marcy)
> > 4. Cd'A Jail Fails & Half-cent Sales Tax For It, Too (Kenneth Marcy)
> > 5. Worthy Cause at the One World Cafe today
> > (Bruce and Jean Livingston)
> > 6. Mr. Ayers?s Neighborhood (Chasuk)
> >
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Message: 1
> > Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 21:52:36 GMT
> > From: Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Vision2020] (no subject)
> > To: <suehovey at moscow.com>, <scooterd408 at hotmail.com>,
> > <lfalen at turbonet.com>, <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> > Message-ID: <200811052152.mA5Lqe0J008217 at mail-gw.fsr.net>
> >
> > Sue -
> >
> > I was of the impression that Eisenhower appointed Warren to the Supreme
> > Court to ensure that the court remained strongly conservative. 
> Realizing
> > that Warren, during WW2, was in favor of Japanese internment camps,
> > Eisenhower felt that Warren was the perfect conservative choice.
> >
> > I also felt that, perhaps, Brown vs. Board of Education was an 
> opportunity
> > for Warren to "make amends" for his alleged anti Japanese-American
> > sentiment during the war as a result of his support for the internment
> > camps.
> >
> > Could this have simply been confusion on my part?
> >
> > Tom Hansen
> > Moscow, Idaho
> >
> > > The twist that is most memorable to me is when Eisenhower made Earl
> > > Warren chief justice to keep him from running for Prez, and it was the
> > > Warren court that came in with the unanimous decision in the 1954, 
> Brown
> > > v The Board of Education of Topeka--possibly the most significant
> > > education decision of our times.
> > >
> > > Sue H.
> >
> >
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> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > Message: 2
> > Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 14:13:53 -0800
> > From: Tom Hansen <idahotom at hotmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Yay! Sali Defeated! Was: UnofficialIdaho
> > Election Results
> > To: <scooterd408 at hotmail.com>, Wayne Fox <deco at moscow.com>, Vision
> > 2020 <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> > Message-ID: <BAY134-W50471DDBBDD4E49806904DD21F0 at phx.gbl>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> >
> >
> > As Scott (last name unknown) stated:
> >
> > "Like hard core right wing talk radio - that's what makes it 
> [Courtney's local blight-mind blahg] entertaining."
> >
> > Exactly, Scott.
> >
> > How else are we to know of . . .
> >
> > Obama's strong Muslim ties (religious relationships obviously 
> acquired shortly after his birth in Kenya).
> >
> > Nurturing a strongly growing anti-American sentiment at the church 
> of Pastor Wright.
> >
> > Being mentored by domestic terrorists like Bill Ayers.
> >
> > Obama's endorsement from Fidel Castro.
> >
> > Note: Obama openly admits that he fathered two black children in 
> wedlock.
> >
> > The HORRORS!
> >
> > Tom Hansen
> > Moscow, Idaho
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > From: scooterd408 at hotmail.comTo: deco at moscow.com; 
> vision2020 at moscow.comDate: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 14:45:31 -0700Subject: Re: 
> [Vision2020] Yay! Sali Defeated! Was: UnofficialIdaho Election Results
> >
> > Like hard core right wing talk radio - that's what makes it 
> entertaining.-Scott
> >
> >
> >
> > From: deco at moscow.comTo: vision2020 at moscow.comDate: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 
> 11:48:24 -0800Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Yay! Sali Defeated! Was: 
> UnofficialIdaho Election Results
> >
> >
> > Courtney's blogs occupy the fringe of Crackpotland.
> >
> > W.
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> > ------------------------------
> >
> > Message: 3
> > Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:44:48 -0800
> > From: Kenneth Marcy <kmmos1 at verizon.net>
> > Subject: [Vision2020] MPC lays off another 210 employees, effective 5
> > Nov 2008
> > To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> > Message-ID: <200811051444.48450.kmmos1 at verizon.net>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
> >
> >
> > http://www.idahostatesman.com/newsupdates/story/561482.html
> >
> > November 05, 2008
> >
> > MPC lays off another 210 employees, effective Wednesday
> >
> > MPC Corp. has laid off another 210 employees from its Nampa facility,
> > effective today, said Bob Fick, an Idaho Department of Labor spokesman.
> >
> > The company filed a special notice with the state in advance those 
> employees
> > seeking unemployment insurance payments.
> >
> > According to David Kojima, a systems administrator at MPC for 13 
> years, there
> > was no severance pay.
> >
> > ?We were paid for time worked and half our holiday pay,? he said. He 
> said some
> > IT workers were retained and estimated 100 employees still work at MPC.
> >
> > Workers were given the news at a meeting Wednesday morning, and 
> escorted out
> > immediately after. Kojima and other laid-off workers met at the 
> Woodshed Bar
> > and Grill at 817 E Karcher Road in Nampa, for what sounded very much 
> like a
> > party.
> >
> > According to some the news comes as a relief after weeks of dealing 
> with very
> > angry customers.
> >
> > "People have been calling for weeks, and we couldn't do anything for 
> the last
> > 3-4 weeks. We've been getting yelled at instead of solving 
> problems," said
> > Ryan Mason. "Some of the supervisors were understanding and let us take
> > breaks between calls so we weren?t just getting screamed at for eight
> > straight hours."
> >
> > Mason worked for MPC for five years. He says he thinks some of the 
> workers
> > will qualify for federal training money and he is hoping to take 
> advantage of
> > that.
> >
> > This is the second time Sue Harris has been laid off recently. She 
> started
> > work at MPC in January after being cut at Zilog.
> >
> > Harris said she saw employees from every department from sales to 
> production
> > leave with their belongings in tow.
> >
> > ?I imagine I?ll go to the Labor Department next week,? she said. ?I 
> just hope
> > I don?t have to put up a for sale sign on my house.?
> >
> > On Wednesday the Labor Department announced that it would extend 
> unemployment
> > office hours through Dec. 18 in Boise, Meridian and Caldwell.
> >
> > ?The department has a wide array of programs and services to help these
> > workers collect the benefit checks they are eligible for and find 
> new jobs
> > that will get them back to work. But with the number of people needing
> > assistance increasing so rapidly, the normal workday just isn?t long 
> enough,?
> > Department of Labor Director Roger B. Madsen said.
> >
> > The offices will remain open until 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday. 
> The normal
> > closing time is 5 p.m.
> >
> > Earlier this week, the MPC disclosed that contract manufacturer 
> Flextronics
> > Computing in Juarez, Mexico will no longer do work for MPC because the
> > company had failed to "meet our obligations."
> >
> > MPC announced Oct. 16 that it had laid off 200 workers at its plants 
> in Nampa
> > and North Sioux City, S.D.
> >
> > The company has also been notified by the NYSE Alternext - formerly the
> > American Stock Exchange - that the exchange intends to remove MPC's 
> stock by
> > filing a delisting application with federal securities regulators.
> >
> > The company has lost nearly $31.5 million in the past three quarters. A
> > spokesman said Friday that MPC is in a "critical situation."
> >
> > Calls to the company have not been returned.
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > Message: 4
> > Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:10:32 -0800
> > From: Kenneth Marcy <kmmos1 at verizon.net>
> > Subject: [Vision2020] Cd'A Jail Fails & Half-cent Sales Tax For It,
> > Too
> > To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> > Message-ID: <200811051510.32659.kmmos1 at verizon.net>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
> >
> >
> > http://www.cdapress.com/articles/2008/11/05/news/news02.txt
> >
> > COEUR d'ALENE -- Voters slammed the door on the county's jail
> > expansion/comprehensive facilities plan Tuesday, voting against $145 
> million
> > in bonding authorization and the accompanying half-cent sales tax 
> increase.
> >
> > Both fell well short of the super majority needed to pass with 
> 37,957 votes
> > (64.1 percent) against the bond question to 21,260 votes (35.9 
> percent) in
> > favor. For the sales tax quesion, 37,405 (61.5 percent) voted 
> against and
> > 23,412 (38.5 percent) voted in favor.
> >
> > Commissioner Todd Tondee said Tuesday night that the problem of an 
> overcrowded
> > jail isn't going away.
> >
> > "We're going to have to do something. We'll reevaluate and see," Tondee
> > said. "It's a disappointment, but we'll deal with it."
> >
> > The $145 million would have built between nine and 12 new buildings, 
> two
> > multi-level parking structures and various expansions to existing 
> facilities
> > both at the sheriff's current headquarters and the downtown courthouse
> > campus.
> >
> > The state law that allows for half the money collected each year 
> from a sales
> > tax to pay off a jail and the other half to go toward property-tax 
> relief is
> > set to expire Dec. 31, 2009.
> >
> > Newly re-elected Sheriff Rocky Watson said he was not sure if his 
> department
> > would push for another jail expansion/facilities plan before the 
> local-option
> > sales tax law expires.
> >
> > "That is completely up to the commissioners. That is their 
> responsibility,"
> > Watson said. "The failure is not a surprise. The degree of the 
> failure is
> > disappointing after you give 100 presentations and open houses."
> >
> > Watson said the plan was a "complex issue" that should have had more 
> time than
> > 90 days in the public eye and deserved the support of all the 
> commissioners.
> > Commissioner Rick Currie did not support the plan.
> >
> > "They've got to do something. The jail is overcrowded and it's a huge
> > expense," Watson said.
> >
> > The last time the county asked voters to approve a jail expansion 
> was in 2005,
> > when it fell short of the required super majority by 300 votes. That 
> plan had
> > a $50 million price tag.
> >
> > Tondee said they will look at all options including tapping into the 
> general
> > fund -- property taxes -- to pay for a jail expansion. The half-cent 
> sales
> > tax would have paid for the debt service on the bonds and kept the 
> project
> > property tax neutral.
> >
> > "I don't know if (spending more time explaining the plan to the 
> public) would
> > have changed anything. Looking back, I'm not disappointed in 
> anything we have
> > done," Tondee said. "I think it's tough economic times and people 
> were just
> > not interested in it."
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > Message: 5
> > Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 16:25:28 -0800
> > From: "Bruce and Jean Livingston" <jeanlivingston at turbonet.com>
> > Subject: [Vision2020] Worthy Cause at the One World Cafe today
> > To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> > Message-ID: <019801c93fa6$2c97b2b0$64e8a8c0 at fd.org>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="Windows-1252";
> > reply-type=original
> >
> > forwarded to the Viz at the request of Brandy Sullivan. 
> Unfortunately, I
> > have been very busy today, and this is quite late, but here it is...
> >
> > Bruce Livingston
> > >
> > > ANNOUNCEMENT:
> > >
> > > On November 5th, One World Cafe in Moscow is celebrating commUNITY 
> and a
> > > belief in the power of CHANGE by providing free coffee drinks in 
> exchange
> > > for donations of ?change? to the University of Idaho?s Operation 
> Education
> > > program.
> > >
> > > Operation Education is a pioneering educational scholarship program
> > > designed to help veterans who were wounded as a result of their 
> service
> > > since 9/11/2001. Visit One World Caf? on the corner of Main and Sixth
> > > streets between 6:30am to 11:000pm on November 5th and receive a free
> > > coffee drink for a donation of any kind to Operation Education.
> > >
> > >
> > > Bring your change jars or just the change in your pocket!!
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > Message: 6
> > Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 16:48:15 -0800
> > From: Chasuk <chasuk at gmail.com>
> > Subject: [Vision2020] Mr. Ayers?s Neighborhood
> > To: Vision2020 <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> > Message-ID:
> > <ef6f41de0811051648x2712e4d7v1d82de3e72fc3b8c at mail.gmail.com>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252
> >
> > 
> http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/tny/2008/11/mr-ayerss-neighborhood.html
> >
> > November 4, 2008
> >
> > Early this morning, the Obama family voted at the Beulah Shoesmith
> > Elementary School, in Hyde Park. Long after they had gone, the lawn in
> > front of the school was filled with reporters, mostly Europeans,
> > filming voters. While I was talking to an eight-year-old kid dressed
> > as George Washington, my colleague Peter Slevin, of the Washington
> > Post was across the street, knocking on the door of someone else who
> > had voted at the Shoesmith School this morning: William Ayers.
> >
> > Ayers has avoided reporters ever since he became an election talking
> > point, scratch pole, and general sensation. But now he answered the
> > door of his three-story row house, and I joined the discussion. Ayers
> > is sixty-four and has earrings in both ears. He wore jeans and a Riley
> > T-shirt?Riley the kid from "Boondocks." The day was fall-bright and
> > 50th Street was filled with fallen gold leaves. Ayers waved to
> > neighbors and kids as they went by on the sidewalk. He was, for the
> > first time in a long while, in an expansive mood, making clear that,
> > in all the months his name has been at the forefront of the campaign,
> > he and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn?ex-leaders of the Weather
> > Underground and longtime educators and activists in the community?have
> > been watching a lot of cable television, not least Fox.
> >
> > One night, Ayers recalled, he and Dohrn were watching Bill O'Reilly,
> > who was going on about "discovering" Ayers's 1974 manifesto, "Prairie
> > Fire." "I had to laugh," Ayers said. "No one read it when it was first
> > issued!" He said that he laughed, too, when he listened to Sarah
> > Palin's descriptions of Obama "palling around with terrorists." In
> > fact, Ayers said that he knew Obama only slightly: "I think my
> > relationship with Obama was probably like that of thousands of others
> > in Chicago and, like millions and millions of others, I wished I knew
> > him better."
> >
> > Ayers said that while he hasn't been bothered by the many threats?"and
> > I'm not complaining"?the calls and e-mails he has received have been
> > "pretty intense." "I got two threats in one day on the Internet," he
> > said, referring to an incident that took place last summer when he was
> > sitting in his office at the University of Illinois-Chicago, where he
> > has taught education for two decades. "The first one said there was a
> > posse coming to shoot me, and the second said they were going to
> > kidnap me and water-board me. This friend of mine, a university cop,
> > said, 'Gosh, I hope the guy who's coming to shoot you gets here
> > first.'"
> >
> > Ayers seemed curiously calm and cheerful about the way he had been
> > made an issue in the campaign. He seemed unbothered to have been part
> > of what he called "the Swiftboating" process of the 2008 campaign.
> >
> > "It's all guilt by association," Ayers said. "They made me into a
> > cartoon character?they threw me up onstage just to pummel me. I felt
> > from the beginning that the Obama campaign had to run the Obama
> > campaign and I have to run my life." Ayers said that once his name
> > became part of the campaign maelstrom he never had any contact with
> > the Obama circle. "That's not my world," he said.
> >
> > As the polling day drew into the late afternoon, the level of security
> > in Hyde Park matched the level of anticipation. Obama's house, four
> > blocks away, was surrounded.
> >
> > Ayers said he felt "a lot of sympathy" for the Reverend Jeremiah
> > Wright, "who was treated grotesquely and unfairly" by the media. He
> > said that Martin Luther King Jr. was, in his time, far more radical
> > than Wright: "Wright's a wimp compared to Martin Luther King?he had a
> > fiercer tone." Ayers was referring to the speeches King gave late in
> > his life in opposition to the Vietnam War and on the subject of
> > economic equality. "Martin Luther King was not a saint," Ayers said.
> > "He was an angry pilgrim." Ayers said that he had commiserated
> > recently with yet another former Hyde Park neighbor (and fellow Little
> > League coach), the Palestinian-American scholar Rashid Khalidi, now at
> > Columbia University, who has also been a punching bag of the right
> > wing in recent weeks.
> >
> > Across the street, neighborhood kids chanted "O-ba-ma! O-ba-ma!" and
> > "Yes we can!" for the cameras. Ayers smiled, looking a little like a
> > more boomer Fred MacMurray in an episode of "My Three Sons."
> >
> > Ayers said that he had never meant to imply, in an interview with the
> > Times, published coincidentally on 9/11, that he somehow wished he and
> > the Weathermen had committed further acts of violence in the old days.
> > Instead, he said, "I wish I had done more, but it doesn't mean I wish
> > we'd bombed more shit." Ayers said that he had never been responsible
> > for violence against other people and was acting to end a war in
> > Vietnam in which "thousands of people were being killed every week."
> >
> > "While we did claim several extreme acts, they were acts of extreme
> > radicalism against property," he said. "We killed no one and hurt no
> > one. Three of our people killed themselves." And yet he was not
> > without regrets. He mocked one of his earlier books, co-written with
> > Dohrn, saying that, while it still is reflective of his radical and
> > activist politics today, he was guilty of "rhetoric that's juvenile
> > and inflated?it is what it is."
> >
> > "I wish I had been wiser," Ayers said. "I wish I had been more
> > effective, I wish I'd been more unifying, I wish I'd been more
> > principled."
> >
> > Ayers said that his life hasn't been much altered by recent months,
> > though he decided to postpone the re-release of his memoir, "Fugitive
> > Days"?"I didn't want it to be put in the meat grinder of this moment."
> > Two books he co-edited will also be republished soon: "City Kids, City
> > Schools" and "City Kids, City Teachers."
> >
> > It was late afternoon, and Ayers was talking about his plans for the
> > evening: he was heading to Grant Park with some friends for what they
> > assumed would be a mass victory party. "This is an achingly exciting
> > moment," he said.
> >
> > As we were getting ready to go, after an hour of front-stoop
> > conversation, a neighbor came by and ironically reminded Ayers of the
> > event that he and his wife held for Obama in 1995 when Obama was
> > making his run for the Illinois state senate. "Everyone, including
> > you, wants to have a coffee here," he joked to the neighbor. "I don't
> > know what the fuck I'm going to do!"
> >
> >
> >
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