Comments on: Fraudulent spam about CNN.com

By: Pavliga

Pavliga — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:46:33 +0000

your site is getting better )

By: Alan Strom

Alan Strom — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:40:30 +0000

Why are you all blaming CNN? You MUST KNOW yourself whether you've signed up to CNN alerts or not. I hadn't so when I got mine, it went straight to my Spam folder.

If you clicked without thinking or looking,. then tough, it's your own fault. Go back to school and take Internet Lessons.

By: Wods

Wods — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:30:40 +0000

Well, CNN itself does some major spamming too. I've signed up for the IBC in Amsterdam and have been recieving hundreds of CNN Alerts in my mailbox. There's a link in the mail too unsubscribe, it's not working properly, I am still recieving those annoying CNN Alerts.

By: Seme Ndzana

Seme Ndzana — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:11:14 +0000

Name of the virus spread by the spam and caugth by my Symantec anti visrus system is "bloodhound".

By: PDF

PDF — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:36:17 +0000

I use Outlook as my email client. Once I saw these CNN email coming in, I knew right away there were unsolicited spam. I created a rule in Outlook to immediately delete these messages on arrival. So I never see them in my inbox. It is working well so far.

By: CNN Alerted

CNN Alerted — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:52:27 +0000

This thing is not just annoying Spam. It is a nasty Trojan horse that will infect your computer if you click on it. These spammers are really criminals, and not just annoying telemarketing types. CNN can not do anything to prevent this sort of thing, but it can expose these scumbags to the light of day. Spammers thrive on hiding who they really are. That's why these spammers pretend to be CNN. CNN should do a news story exposing the spammers true identities.

By: Heinrich

Heinrich — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:29:02 +0000

I also received the "CNN" spam email messages and I checked the "from" field in the email messages and knew that it was not from CNN, I read CNN everyday and will know if I subscribed to the email alerts. The alerts also was in the gmail spam folder

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:02:03 +0000

Gmail did a good job of putting these emails automatically in my SPAM folder.

By: vegtabill

vegtabill — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:25:21 +0000

It's been said in this thread several times already, but it's worth saying again: CNN, with or without it's "vast resources", can't do anything about this. To understand why, you'd need a basic understanding of how spam emails like these are created and how they propogate on the internet. Suffice to say, it is way beyond CNN's control.

Here's a thought, though... how about running a story on this kind of thing? Tell people about how these things happen and how to recognize spam and malware. I see this as an excellent opportunity for CNN to help educate the public on these issues. They can't stop it, but they can help to arm people against it.

By: Gavin T

Gavin T — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:53:18 +0000

I've had a dozen or so in a couple of days and if I hadn't known any better I'd have downloaded the Worm/Trojan you are asked to install to 'view' the video. I've noticed today, however, that most if not all of the fake sites are either 404 site not found or Firefox warns me that the site is a forgery.