Flamed

"Security Alert: Information on Flamer. Flamer has managed to infect a large number of computers worldwide. Are you protected?"

This was is from a marketing email by Symantec from 2012, a week or so after the Flame virus/exploit package first made headlines. We found this gem on a German blog.

The author of the German post went to the Norton database to look up Flame and found the risk assessment to be "low".

Needless to say, some 99.999 percent of the recipients of this friendly reminder email were nowhere close to the epicenter of Flame's activity. And, as far as we know, there is no sizable group of hobbyists with nuclear centrifuges in their garages or basements.

We are now waiting to see if folks on the internet will report another scare email from Symantec after reports of a new big one, "Red October", a few days ago.

The K-landnews team suggests creative re-use of the flamer campaign template, just tone it down a little, hit that send button, and you can go back to playing solitaire or games.