Opening a greeting card from FriendGreetings.com can trigger a software download that will automatically send an e-card to everyone in your address book.
The chain begins when you receive an e-mail message like the following:Subject: snopes you have an E-Card from Barbara. Greetings! Barbara has sent you an E-Card - a virtual postcard from FriendGreetings.com. You can pickup your E-Card at the FriendGreetings.com by clicking on the link below. http://www.friendgreetings.com/pickup/pickup.aspx?code=snopes&id=A676543B45 Message: - snopes, I sent you a greeting card. Please pick it up. Barbara -Should you attempt to retrieve the greeting card sent to you by visiting the URL provided, you will be prompted to download and run an installer package:If you download and install this software (and accept the license agreement), the installed program will go through your Microsoft Outlook address book and send a mail message just like the one reproduced immediately above to every entry in your address book, thus creating a continuous chain of greeting card recipients unknowingly sending cards to even more recipients. Note that this is not a 'bug' or the result of a web site's software having been infected by a 'virus'; this is the intended behavior of the FriendGreetings.com (and other) e-cards as explictly described in the license agreement shown above.If you have already installed the FriendGreetings application, you can deinstall it by following the removal instructions on the McAfee.com web site.
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