Beware the Hallmark e-card. My mother didn't raise me to open e-mail attachments from strangers, but in the holiday season, I saw little risk in clicking something from that kindly greeting-card company. The worst that could happen, I figured, was losing a couple of seconds of my life to a dancing turkey.
As soon as I clicked the link, I regretted it. Expecting the worst, I Googled the caption on the e-mail: "You've received a Hallmark e-card!" and found what I feared at Snopes.com, the urban-legend site I always send friends to when I smell a scam. After some more research, I learned I had set a place at my computer table for Trojan.vundo. Hallmark doesn't send e-cards without telling you whom they're from, says spokeswoman Linda Odell. "Whoever is doing this is trading on a name that people trust. We certainly don't like that." The next morning, a suspicious …
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