Yikes!

Just read about the virus that hit Monster.com and stole personal data of 'hundreds of thousands' of users, used most probably for phishing. Wow.

To quote the news article:

"Symantec said it had seen reports of phishing e-mails sent out to Monster.com users which were "very realistic, containing personal information of the victims".

The e-mail encouraged users to download a Monster Job Seeker Tool, which was in fact a program that encrypted files in their computer and left a ransom note demanding money for their decryption."

Wow. The phishing is one thing -- but kidnapping people's files for a ransom is just beyond me.
Whatever happened to the time of (almost) harmless viruses that would just flash across your computer screen 'Mubarak is cow'?

(yes, that was a real virus. Back then with Windows 3.14... It would just write 'Mubarak is cow' a bunch of times on your screen.)