{"id":1591,"date":"2009-10-30T09:44:32","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T15:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mulibraries.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/?p=1591"},"modified":"2009-10-30T09:44:32","modified_gmt":"2009-10-30T15:44:32","slug":"tech-tip-warning-about-viruses-in-holiday-e-mails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/2009\/10\/30\/tech-tip-warning-about-viruses-in-holiday-e-mails\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Tip: Warning About Viruses in Holiday E-mails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we approach the holidays, notices of e-mails containing viruses and actual e-mail viruses are beginning to circulate.  These notices ask you to click a link, which may take you to a site containing a virus or some other type of malware.<\/p>\n<p>Please, follow these simple suggestions to keep your computer safe:<\/p>\n<p>If you get a forwarded e-mail *about* a circulating virus, check www.snopes.com under the subject of the email.  More than likely, the warning has been circulating for years and that particular virus is no longer a threat. Don&#8217;t trust the message when it says that it&#8217;s already been checked at Snopes or some other service; check yourself.<\/p>\n<p>If you receive an e-mail with subjects like &#8220;An e-mail card for you!&#8221;, &#8220;A(n) Hallmark card for you!&#8221; or some other generic subject like this, delete it! On line card providers will have your name in the subject line, something like, &#8220;PT, Ernest sent you an online card!&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>As always, if you have ANY doubt about the legitimacy of an e-mail, delete it or ask someone in LTS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we approach the holidays, notices of e-mails containing viruses and actual e-mail viruses are beginning to circulate. These notices ask you to click a link, which may take you to a site containing a virus or some other type<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/2009\/10\/30\/tech-tip-warning-about-viruses-in-holiday-e-mails\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tech Tip: Warning About Viruses in Holiday E-mails<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-tips"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-27 22:27:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}