{"id":2055,"date":"2010-10-05T09:33:22","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T08:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.intego.com\/?p=2055"},"modified":"2010-10-05T09:33:22","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T08:33:22","slug":"itunes-virus-hold-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/itunes-virus-hold-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"iTunes Virus? Hold Everything…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recent reports from an especially clueless TV station in Ohio suggested that an “iTunes virus” was circulating by e-mail. Well, there is no such thing; and the TV station (which we won’t even bother to link to; no need to get people to their site) fixed the article to explain that it is not a virus, but rather spam. <\/p>\n

We got several of these messages; here’s what they look like:<\/p>\n

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As is often the case, these e-mails look somewhat legitimate; though you can see here a subtotal of “$050.99”, from a unit price of $180.99, which was charged for a single “Digital 45.” And the “Order Total” at the top doesn’t match any of the other numbers. Well, give them credit for getting the logo correct…<\/p>\n

This specific spam just takes users to a web site selling bogus meds. Others may have other effects, and many e-mails of this type are phishing attempts, which try to get users to log into a fake web page and give up credentials for an account. <\/p>\n

As always, you can hover your cursor over the links in e-mail messages to see where those links actually go. Make sure you do that to check links before clicking them; even better, don’t click links in e-mails if you’re not 100% certain that they are legitimate. If you do have an iTunes account, just log into it via iTunes; in fact, you can’t access it via the web at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recent reports from an especially clueless TV station in Ohio suggested that an “iTunes virus” was circulating by e-mail. Well, there is no such thing; and the TV station (which we won’t even bother to link to; no need to get people to their site) fixed the article to explain that it is not a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[72],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n