There is a new virus making the rounds that infects PCs and infiltrates your mail system. If you get this message, you need to change your email password and also scan your PC for infections. (It is actually a trojan and is not always easily detectable with standard virus software.) Please note that this is not the only virus of its kind, just the latest. Here is an overview of what happens, and how you can infect all your friends.
- You get this trojan from an email or a website and be unaware that it has even infected your computer.
- The infection sends emails to your contact list (up to 10 people at a time). So, it appears they have received an email from you that contains a holiday greeting.
- In the message is the link (shown at the bottom of this post). Since it has the word Christmas in it, many are led to believe it is an e-card.
- After clicking the link, they are redirected to a website selling Viagra that is infected. If their PC does not have excellent virus protection, it will infect it too.
In order to ensure that your computer is safe from any infection, there are a couple things you can do. Always be sure to scan your PCs for virus and spyware infections before you do anything else on your computer. Serious infections are learning to hide from your virus software. Some viruses send emails, others steal passwords and credit card information, and others slow the PC down while causing strange error messages. We have also seen some PCs of late that appear to have hardware or operating system corruption. Standard virus and spyware scans do not reveal anything, but specialized software that finds trojans and rootkits discover the real issue. So please be proactive: scan for viruses and/or call your computer support expert to be sure your PCs are clean and optimized.
What the faulty link says:
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