Another Milestone Passed

I acheived another marker of Internet "success" tonight: someone sent Half-Bakered a targeted trojan. In the blog mailbox was an email from "James Mason" of "techtimes.net." He specifically referenced a particular post, praised the blog and said he read it, and had attached a link to a Flash file he thought I'd like, linked to the post.

All kinds of alarm bells went off, of course. James Mason might be a real name, but he was also a great Hollywood actor. The file wasn't part of a particular site or web page, nor his own site, but parked at a place called "YouSendIt." It was a zip file. Checking the site his email purportedly came from, techtimes.net, proved it to be a place-holder for sale by seeq.com. The actual header said the email was from "anonymous@m1.netfirms.com."

I scanned the file, of course, and it was flagged as a trojan. So it's history.

Is it possible some zombie machine somehow spidered the blog and figured out enough to fake all this? Not likely, if you ask me. Someone set it up and then sent it. There appears to be intent here.

It's always a sign of success when someone sets out to sabotage you. Thanks! This is the first ever email someone's deliberately sent Half-Bakered with the seeming explicit intent of taking over my home computer.

And to hell with you, too.