With the holidays upon us, spammers are sending out more fake eCards. If you get a message along the lines of "You've been sent an eCard from an anonymous friend", be very suspicious. Unless you recognize the sender, it's quite likely to be malicious.

There is a great tool for taking a look "under the hood" of emails. (Okay, this only applies to people using Outlook on Windows.) It's called Pocketknife Peek, and can be found here: http://www.xintercept.com/peek/pkpeek.htm While the folks at XIntercept make it available free for personal use, you really should take a look the full range of their products.