Bob Greene gets an urgent e-mail from an old friend writing , `` With tears in my eyes ... `` The desperate plea for money turns out to be an e-mail scam . Greene says malware placed on computers when a user clicks on a link can capture keystrokes . That 's why his phone had been busy all afternoon . He also notes that the virus is not very sophisticated and doesn't have any backdoors or other features that would allow it to steal passwords.
Bob Greene gets an urgent e-mail from an old friend writing , `` With tears in my eyes ... `` The desperate plea for money turns out to be an e-mail scam . Greene says malware placed on computers when a user clicks on a link can capture keystrokes . He also notes that the virus is not very sophisticated and doesn't have any backdoors or other features that would allow it to steal passwords.