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There is a new e-card virus currently making the rounds that is targeting your cash and wreaking mayhem on your computer. Experts are calling the virus ’severe’, and it is being disguised as a Hallmark greeting card.

Basically there is an email going around, that in one case even came to someones inbox as an email from ecards@hallmark.com. It says something along the lines of you have received a Hallmark greeting card from a friend, to view it click the attachment, which is named postcard.zip.

However, Hallmark doesn’t have any e-cards that they make you download. This is a virus, and it’s after your money. It’s primary goal is to steal your financial information, like your banking pin number and the like. It has been making it’s way from Eastern Europe, and could just send the greeting card business back to paper cards, it is that bad.

It works by infecting core Window’s files slowly, so that you never even know it’s there, and it’s going to be just about impossible to fix it with your run of the mill anti virus. So what kind of protection efforts are being made?

Well with Hallmark, they never require any downloading of files, nor do they use .exe files. If you get an e-card from Hallmark that asks you to download something, delete it. It’s not genuine and will infect your computer.

Also, with Hallmark, e-cards are always sent from the sender, not from Hallmark itself. So if you receive something from Hallmark itself, or don’t recognize the sender, again it isn’t genuine, and you need to delete it.

They never require the receiver to enter any type of personal info or user names and passwords to retrieve an e card, and all notifications will have a link to the card on Hallmark.com, and a URL to the e card inside the actual email.

Bottom line? Don’t open any e cards from unfamiliar people, and until this threat passes, it is probably best to refrain from getting e cards altogether.

Everyone is using them…Why not you? Why are E-cards so popular in todays digital world? Well, simply because today is a digital world of course! Media is switching to digital right and left, and in the age of convenience, it just makes sense to use an e-card rather than boring old paper ones. Not to mention the killer graphics you can attach to a digital card, that makes them fun and entertaining for their readers!

But let’s talk about specifics on why e-cards have grown into such popularity. First of all, if you are involved in Internet marketing at all, you view e-cards as a way to garner more traffic to your website. This follows along the lines of viral marketing. Attaching your business name or logo to a unique or funny e-card, means there is a great chance it will get forwarded along and go viral!

It’s easy to spread the love. Not only is it easy to go viral with your customer base, it’s just easier to send an e-card to loved ones. Not to mention, during holidays you get to bypass the huge post office rush, and rest secure in the knowledge that YOUR greeting card is reaching it’s recipient in time! Neener, neener, neener!

It’s also a winner with the Eco friendly folks intent on ‘going green’ in today’s polluted and misused world. Not only do e-cards save trees, fuel, and paper, they also reduce the waste that is created printing out large quantities of paper cards. Environmental groups are all gung ho for them for this very reason!

Not to mention the fact, that it’s just downright more convenient all around. Who actually WANTS to go to the store just to pick up a greeting card, and then have to purchase postage and perhaps visit the dreaded post office? Definitely not I! You?

So save yourself some trouble, stop resisting, and just jump on the e-card bandwagon already. I promise, tree’s will thank you!

E card popularity is increasing all the time. So many people are becoming more aware of the environment, and the pollution and degradation of our resources and are starting to come up with little ways that they can ’save the planet’ and cut down on the waste of paper. Electronic cards happen to be a way that they can do that, and have fun too.

With the Internet becoming increasingly pervasive in all areas of personal life and business, it just makes sense to jump on the bandwagon and go electronic. Email is now a preferred method of communication between two people, and it is simple as the click of a button to pop off a funny or heart warming e card to your best friend or your grandma that lives in Kentucky!

Choosing a nice Christmas or holiday e card just takes a few minutes of browsing an online provider, choosing the one that suits you best, and personalizing it a bit if you wish with your own message. Compare that to the old method of driving to the store, spending an hour browsing through the cards, and then paying for postage just to send a holiday greeting, and it’s no wonder ecards are gaining in popularity.

Another draw to ecards, is the ability to personalize it with a short video if you want. Paper cards are great, but which do you think will bring tears to a Grandma’s eyes faster… A paper Christmas card with a photo of little Junior? Or an e card with a short clip of little Junior telling Grandma he loves her and misses her, and to have a Merry Christmas! I know which I’d rather have.

American’s these days are all about convenience and instant gratification. That is what the original paper cards were invented for in the first place, to save time. Fortunately ecards are the perfect way to cater to that need, and are just the new wave technology to eventually make paper cards obsolete. And if you take into account that most ecards are absolutely free to send, what’s not to love about them?