Comments on: New Phishing Campaign Targets LinkedIn Users with Fake Reminders http://www.gfi.com/blog/new-phishing-campaign-targets-linkedin-users-with-fake-reminders/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-phishing-campaign-targets-linkedin-users-with-fake-reminders Brought to you by GFI Software Fri, 13 Sep 2013 13:27:20 +0000 hourly 1 By: Christina Goggi http://www.gfi.com/blog/new-phishing-campaign-targets-linkedin-users-with-fake-reminders/comment-page-1/#comment-45313 Christina Goggi Mon, 18 Feb 2013 11:22:09 +0000 http://www.gfi.com/blog/?p=9834#comment-45313 Hi Deborah, great question! Here’s the rundown of what I like to do:

1. Make sure your antivirus software is completely up to date.
2. Run a complete scan of your system. You may have to dig into the options, as many a/v products default to a quick scan. You want a complete scan.
3. Address any issues that the scan finds.
4. While you are focused on the system, apply any operating system or application updates that it needs. Don’t forget Flash, Adobe Acrobat Reader, etc.
5. Reboot
6. Run another complete scan after the reboot just in case there was something waiting for a restart before it executed.
Hope that helps :)

]]> By: Deborah Jane http://www.gfi.com/blog/new-phishing-campaign-targets-linkedin-users-with-fake-reminders/comment-page-1/#comment-45011 Deborah Jane Tue, 12 Feb 2013 22:50:25 +0000 http://www.gfi.com/blog/?p=9834#comment-45011 This sounds like good advice, but I’m perplexed as to why solutions to problems like this one (and I clicked too; was caught off-guard this time) so often just instruct users to have our support desks or system administrators or information security teams, etc., fix it, as if everybody has those. I’m an at-home computer user who came here seeking help, but I’m my own support desk and security team and everything else. I can’t just deflect this problem. So now what? What are those “appropriate actions” other than running a malware scan?

]]> By: Christina Goggi http://www.gfi.com/blog/new-phishing-campaign-targets-linkedin-users-with-fake-reminders/comment-page-1/#comment-43227 Christina Goggi Fri, 04 Jan 2013 14:10:08 +0000 http://www.gfi.com/blog/?p=9834#comment-43227 Then you need to inform your support desk or information security team so that they can run a malware scan, and take any appropriate actions to change credentials if you did more than just click. And they need to understand that people are people, can and will make mistakes, and their job is to tend to the issue, not chastise the user for making a simple and entirely understandable error.

]]> By: Jarek http://www.gfi.com/blog/new-phishing-campaign-targets-linkedin-users-with-fake-reminders/comment-page-1/#comment-43203 Jarek Thu, 03 Jan 2013 14:25:25 +0000 http://www.gfi.com/blog/?p=9834#comment-43203 OK, but then what if you mistakenly have clicked on such reminder and opened the website?

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