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Get Well. Just Because. An e-mail flying around the Internet suggests recipients who open a Blue Mountain Web card will infect their computer with a virus. It's just a hoax, but the marketing campaign the company has been forced to mount to fight it shows how fragile a Web company's business can be in a medium where anyone can tell the world anything almost instantly. Blue Mountain became aware of the hoax when e-mails from customers began trickling in Feb. It didn't seem very serious, but in three weeks, the trickle has swelled to "tens of thousands of notes" from customers asking if the story were true.
The keyboard as a weapon Hoaxes are as old as the Net itself, but most are relatively harmless. Even last year's Nike hoax, which promised recipients they'd get brand-new sneakers if they they sent old ones to Nike, cost only some extra postage for the 7, folks who fell for it.
But the Blue Mountain hoax is different. It shows one person, armed with a keyboard, can threaten a company's core business. The once-tiny greeting card company has been around in paper form for 30 years but in became one of the first Web sites to offer free Net greetings.
That vaulted the company into the top 10 most visited Web sites. It now delivers 1 million virtual greetings a day, and Schultz says virtual cards are the future of the company. Do not open cards from Blue Mountain Arts until further notice.
Apparently a hacker got into their system and it's infected. If you open cards from them, your system crashes Pass this on to anyone you may know that uses Blue Mountain Hoax spreading like wildfire There's no known way to get a virus by retrieving a Blue Mountain card. Blue Mountain does not send out e-mail attachments, the usual method for virus transmission. Instead, card recipients get an e-mail notification which points them to a Web page. The Web page cards transmit no executable code to the visitor, meaning there's no way for a recipient to receive a virus.
One caveat: if you're tricked into visiting a Web page that looks like a Blue Mountain page but actually is an imitator set up to infect visitors through a bait-and-switch tactic known as "spoofing.
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