Computer Viruses
One Look and It’s Too Late
New here? You may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I think it was early 2004 when I first heard about a virus that was embedded in an image. So what once required a user to download and execute a file is now even easier to deliver its payload. When you simply […]
A Hacker’s Christmas Gift
In the spirit of gift-giving this time of year, hackers are in full bloom. One in particular wants to send you a Christmas greeting in the form of a Trojan horse called “MerryX.A”. Actually, this little gift comes in the form of an animated electronic card, so while you’re viewing it the package is installed […]
An Update On New Virus Post
On Nov. 23 I posted an article about a new virus disguising itself as an e-mail and associated attachment. The latest I’ve heard is that the e-mail appears to come from the FBI. Don’t let that name fool you because it’s really not from the FBI.
The message catches your attention because it says it has […]
A New Virus is Floating Around
You’ve heard about the e-mails that show up and pose themselves as coming from your bank. They give you some line about needing you to update your contact information. Well, the latest virus going around is disguised in an e-mail attachment that goes something like this:
Dear Sir/Madam,
We have logged your IP-address on more than 30 […]
Bird Flu Migrates to the PC
Hackers are capitalizing on the fear people have over the bird flu. By disguising themselves as useful e-mail messages, they lure computer users into downloading documents containing important information about the bird flu.
With subject lines that read “What is avian influenza (bird flu)?” or “Outbreak in North America”, the e-mails are hard to ignore. Once […]
IM Is A Hot Bed for Virus Attacks
Computer virus hackers, being true to their form, cannot resist the challenge of designing a virus-infected attachment (and the bragging rights that come along with it) and fooling you into clicking on it to infect your computer. IM is ripe for the picking mainly because it’s virtually an unexplored playground for hackers, and users aren’t […]
