In the last 24 hours the spammers and scammers have begun to distribute spam with the guise to:
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- Harvest Email Addresses — This seems to used to ask users to respond to the email to get “top secret” information about how he died. Security experts believe this is an attempt to verify email addresses for future spam attempts. Although it isn’t wise to reply to people you don’t know about it at least has very little risk with your computer for the time being.
- Fake Codecs and Hidden Trojans — Seems this is the main thing they are doing right now to get personal computers on their networks. So you should never visit a site you don’t know about without having an Anti-virus software and A firewall to better protect your system.
- Extortion Ware — This one is very interesting, and According to Webroot. You should avoid sites that you don’t know anything about. With News of anything major you should keep with the trusted news sites. This one looks to be the bad guy type.
These seem to be a common ploy with scammers and spammers who want to get money from you in one way or another. I have been watching the Google searches and haven’t seen any malicious sites but I could of missed one here and there.
You should always have an [intlink id=”2205″ type=”page”]Anti-virus and Firewall[/intlink] available to help protect your system from these types of attacks. If you had some kind of protection to better protect your computer. Remember no one can stop computer infections but you.
