New Wireless Hot Spot scam...

[xultar]

New scam at airports, "Free Wireless Hot Spot." This may look like an airport hotspot (and may even have the same name), but is a peer-to-peer network that can infect your laptop and open it to attack and could result in it becoming a zombie machine. This article tells how this scam works and how to identify and protect against it, with both Windows XP and Windows Vista.

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9008399&pageNumber=1

[libnnc]

1. thanks for posting this

I had no idea it was that easy to get scammed like this.

[xultar]

2. I work for a large IT company...they sent it to us. I figured it was pretty

big since I received it in a company email.